Sentence examples for less directly than from inspiring English sources
Chinese officials tend to speak far less directly than Americans.
He was an extrovert, unable to contain a good joke he had just heard and unwilling to treat bigwigs any less directly than anyone else.
Leaders in China are expected to express themselves much less directly than those in the West It's not that Chinese are unwilling to share information, but Westerners will have to prompt Chinese counterparts if they want details.
Mr. Bush continued to press his case on Friday that there were substantial links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's government, although less directly than he did earlier in the week.
The episode taught him that "questions of honor are raised as much by appearances as by reality in politics," he wrote, "and because they incite public distrust they need to be addressed no less directly than we would address evidence of expressly illegal corruption".
IF the daffodils can bloom in February and the forsythia before the Ides of March, the mayor of New York City can run the public school system -- probably less directly than he would like, but more directly than mayors have in more than 30 years.
When I understood this, I took great pleasure in acting in the film, which is less directly accessible than "Husbands".
The effects of these social determinants on health are less directly observable than bacteria in a Petri-dish and therefore require interventions that are distinctly different from a drug or vaccine, operating at a socio-ecological rather than simply biological level.
But the cardinals, who began arriving here today, will be meeting with Vatican officials who see themselves in a far more advisory and less directly supervisory role than many Americans might imagine.
In "The Laramie Project," the presentation is more personal, even though the play focuses less directly on the murder than on its impact on the town.
[ 13] Although there are certainly stresses associated with low income, it may be that women's self-esteem is less directly linked to income than men's.
