"The 1994 genocide in one small country ultimately triggered a conflict in the heart of Africa that has directly or indirectly touched at least one-third of all the nations on the continent," the report said.
But House officials confirmed Saturday that the case involved communications Ms. Waters had in fall 2008 with federal officials that at least indirectly touched on the fate of OneUnited, a Boston-based bank with branches in Massachusetts, Florida and California.
The first rabbi invited to address the Vatican's annual synod of bishops criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran on Monday and indirectly touched on a main sticking point in Roman Catholic-Jewish relations: the church's efforts on behalf of Jews during World War II.
My guess is that Mr. Kushner, like Peter, will indirectly touch a raw nerve -- a 9/11 nerve -- and that his audience will soon be hungry for more.
This omission in Mr. Stevenson's article can't compare to the sort of blithe unknowing that led National Geographic magazine to publish an article in 1937 titled "Changing Berlin," but it does make one marvel at a level of corruption in the Rowland administration so profound it indirectly touches the art of an 85-year-old master craftsman.
Jesse Norman, who took over from Whittingdale as chair of the committee last month said: "BBC charter review is a topic which directly or indirectly touches us all.
Work by Delmas and Grant (2010) indirectly touches on the topic of valuation of added SO2.
Nonetheless, many have wondered what Kurzweil's new position would mean for Google and the billions of people its global reach directly or indirectly touches.
Finally, for parents of young kids who play with iPhones and iPads and spend a great deal of time playing with app games or app books, Baldwin also indirectly touches on the potential effect mobile devices and apps may have on our abilities to effectively create, absorb, and share stories.
Of course, the letter barely (and even then, indirectly) touches on the fact that VeriFone has their own, competing smartphone credit card reading system, giving them a bit more skin in the game than the whole white-knight approach might let on.
By "ultimate client," Mr. Cohn meant, for example, a worker with a pension, whose life is touched by Wall Street indirectly.
