Sentence examples for say indirectly from inspiring English sources

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It leads people to say indirectly those things that should be directly expressed.

The German replied: "Probably you could say indirectly so".

I didn't say "indirectly"; I said "directly".

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Jones said: "Indirectly supporting someone?" "Well yes, you can't nominate someone".

Cardenal has criticized the Yankees intermittently since his departure, saying indirectly that he was not treated with respect.

She also refused to provide further details about the party's membership except saying indirectly that there were at least a dozen members.

Speaking about the importance of seizing the toluol aboard the Turkish freighter Selene in a Ukrainian port, Kerch, on the Black Sea, he said, "Indirectly, we saved ourselves".

"It has nothing to do with the editorial policies or the journalism or the films or anything else," he said, indirectly referring to the News Corp. outlets like Fox News Channel and The Wall Street Journal.

Weighing in on the racially fraught Trayvon Martin case, the president never used the word "black," instead saying, indirectly but with clear feeling, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon".

"The Suharto days were better — he had a strategy, a vision and he was a strong man," Mr. Sukirno said, indirectly criticizing the president of the last eight-plus years, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, another former army general whose critics say is indecisive when it comes to tough policy decisions.

"Direct evidence for the presence of eutherians 160 million years ago," Hunter says, "indirectly provides evidence metatherians must have been in existence at the same time even though we do not yet have their fossils".

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