Sentence examples for rather indirect from inspiring English sources

Both effects seem to be related to changes in atmospheric dynamics, thus being rather indirect.

Although all news outlets in China are technically owned by the government, in many cases the connection is rather indirect.

If SNPs are indeed rather indirect markers of disease, that would explain why many have turned up in junk DNA.

Making it cheaper for banks to lend to each other is a rather indirect method of intervention.

This is a rather indirect means of communication, but not inconceivable as a way to send an ally the unpleasant message that our patience is running thin, so don't push us too far.

However, the influence of media on the policy debate was rather indirect, in that policy actors mostly reacted to the messages from other policy actors reported in the media and to a lesser extent to the media coverage itself.

We chose direct rather than indirect standardisation because we wished to compare PCTs with each other and indirect standardisation would not have allowed this.

The mechanistic study reveals that the desulfurization route is dominated by direct catalytic oxidation rather than indirect oxidation by radicals.

In addition, it looked for evidence of disease like heart attacks and cancer rather than indirect indicators like cholesterol levels, which can be misleading.

To study this question we extend the existing p-cycle network design theory to include the capability of direct restriction of protection path lengths, rather than indirect restriction through cycle circumference limits.

Specific structural changes are revealed to reduce hERG binding, rather than indirect through descriptors like SlogP [18], PSA [19], Chi-Square [20] or BCUT [21].