Sentence examples for literally direct from inspiring English sources

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"About half the Islamic movement in Turkey, meaning the pious, conservative segment of society, are literally direct followers of Nursi, while the other half also respects him," Mr. Akyol said.

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The court has dictated the price of sugar and fuel, championed the rights of transsexuals, and, quite literally, directed the traffic in the coastal megalopolis of Karachi.

"We make sure all our cups at Reading and Leeds are paper, and there's a 10p deposit on them to encourage people to return them," says Benn. "We have three or four different types of bin, and we'll station a green messenger at every rubbish point literally directing peoples' hands to the right bin.

For significant periods of time DeLeon has literally directed APA staff on federal policy matters and has dominated the APA governance on political matters.

Gianopulos probably doesn't mean that Brad Pitt is literally directing alongside Fincher, just that Pitt's helping with the development but after the maniacal control he wielded during the original's production, who knows how hands-on the star has been.

[ 1] Translation of transcripts to a language common to the whole research team costs time and money; and meaning is easily distorted or lost in translation: in some languages and dialects there are literally no direct translations for some words and for other words several meanings can be assigned [ 2].

As Sir Rex, who died on Nov. 11 at 86, could scarcely have imagined, his colonial idyll would end abruptly in 1982, when he found himself, literally overnight, directing a tiny band of British military men against an amphibious Argentine invasion.

The end of the world will be announced by the coming of the mahdī (literally, "the directed or guided one")—a messianic figure who will appear in the last days and is not found in the Qurʾān but developed out of Shīʿite speculations and is sometimes identified with Jesus.

One of his principal teachings was that humans could and should experience theoria (literally "contemplation," or direct experience of God).

Current regulations of the MoH for private pharmacies literally forbid their "direct communication, through windows, doors or aisles, with other businesses, such as doctor's offices".

And although Unforgiven director Clint Eastwood has also largely retired from acting, Freeman says: "He will keep directing literally until he drops dead.

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