Sentence examples for instruments of direct from inspiring English sources

While shows of activist art are not uncommon, this is the first major exhibition to focus on the actual instruments of direct action.

The Federal Reserve System exercises its regulatory powers in several ways, the most important of which may be classified as instruments of direct or indirect control.

In systems of representative democracy, the introduction of instruments of direct democracy is not very likely, since they are regarded as undermining established power structures.

That counter-balance is best secured through instruments of direct democracy such as primary elections, referendums, and an electoral system such as the single transferable vote enabling voters to exercise a wider degree of choice.

More than one of the instruments of direct democracy are also provided for and practiced on the national level in Uruguay and, more recently, in some of the Eastern European countries such as Latvia and Lithuania.

Although the party was supported by some wealthy western Canadian business leaders, it had a populist dimension evident in suspicion of traditional party politics and support for instruments of direct democracy, both in its internal organization and for the entire political system.

The first instrument of direct democracy with a transnational character is the European Citizens' Initiative of the Lisbon Treaty, entered into force on December 1, 2009 (Article 11.4), an agenda initiative that allows 1 million or more European citizens to propose legislation to the European Commission (without a referendum).

The exogenous characteristics of k, xk,g, directly affect j's outcome, but not (directly) that of i, hence forming valid instruments for the outcome of i's neighbours (i.e. j's outcome) in the equation for node i. Intuitively, this method uses the characteristics of second-degree neighbours who are not direct neighbours as instruments for outcomes of direct neighbours.

Not all the instruments of Korea are direct imports from the Chinese.

Britten recovered his joie de vivre for The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945), written for an educational film, Instruments of the Orchestra, directed by Muir Mathieson and featuring the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent.

There are 2 types of generic preference-based instruments: direct measurement instruments, such as standard gamble [ 20]; and multi-attribute classification systems with preference-based scoring functions [ 21], such as the Health Utilities Index [ 22, 23] and the Quality of Well-Being Scale [ 24, 25].