Sentence examples for mention directly from inspiring English sources

One name Mr. Morgenthau did not mention directly was that of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, with whom he has recently feuded.

This is a curious irony, that a writer chronicling a less self-conscious period should need to be so circumspect, not because race has ceased to matter but because it's too important to mention directly.

Even the sanguine majority of Britons who assume, not unreasonably, that they live in an era of unthreateningly benign government should think twice, or at least once, about that.The other philosopher the speech brought to mind (a little ominously) but did not mention directly was Sir Isaiah Berlin.

Mr Sisi, 59, made no mention directly of the Muslim Brotherhood in a speech at a Cairo presidential palace late on Sunday.

This is framed, albeit disingenuously, as a personal failing; misogyny and body-image issues are not mentioned directly.

That effectively means that the role of half the population is mentioned directly just twice out of the 38 suggested topics.

Galileo was not mentioned directly in the decree, but he was admonished by Robert Cardinal Bellarmine (1542 1621) not to "hold or defend" the Copernican theory.

Another segment showed Iranian students at the University of Maryland enjoying Mehregan, a traditional Persian fall festival, without mentioning directly what viewers in Iran already know: that this secular holiday's celebration is discouraged by the country's religious leaders.

Although the issue was not mentioned directly, the administration's religion-based initiative would benefit immeasurably from a decision to uphold the ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Mr. Lowles said that under British law it was possible to libel someone indirectly or by innuendo, even if the incorrect accusations were not mentioned directly, as long as they were clear from the context.

Afterward, Justice Robert L. Maranger of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice raised the cultural issues surrounding the case, which, while rarely mentioned directly in court, had become a widespread topic of discussion in Canada, particularly in Quebec, where the family lives.