Sentence examples for indirect operations from inspiring English sources

Cannon-Brookes said the company would also look at energy use in some of its indirect operations, such as its cloud data centres.

The Guardian cannot with any great integrity point out the dangers of climate change, waste, the over-use of resources and shrinking biodiversity unless we do as much as possible to limit our impacts on the environment of our direct and indirect operations.

Oxfam focused on suppliers because the majority of carbon emissions come from indirect operations such as contracted farms.

About two-thirds of General Mills' greenhouse gas emissions and 99% of its water use comes from its indirect operations such as the farms it purchases raw materials from.

It reviews the historical development of the new regulations, to be applied to all new buildings on January 1 , 2009 and the anticipated impact of the new rules on the design and indirect operation of various subcategories of dry cargo and passenger ships.

In an example of this type of operation, in 2002 the United States began to support, through numerous types of indirect special operations, the government of the Philippines in its struggle against a number of terrorist and insurgent groups in that country's southern islands.

The goal of indirect special operations is either to increase the effectiveness of local insurgent or security forces or to influence the morale, will, and cohesion of the target audience all of this done as economically as possible and with little or no publicity because of the sensitive political nature of the missions.

The lack of publicity surrounding Operation Enduring Freedom Philippines (OEF-P) reflected both the nature of indirect special operations and a mutual desire on the part of the Philippines and United States not to incite a public or political backlash through more aggressive, visible, direct, and conventional military support.

They much preferred an indirect strategy - operations in the Mediterranean and the Balkans.

Iran and the United States may be arch-enemies on the ideological front, but the IS offensive in Iraq has led to indirect co-operation between the two.

NATO funding is split between direct contributions (financing overhead expenditures) and indirect contributions (financing operations).