They all knew the phone was tapped, so they spoke indirectly.
We will learn to speak indirectly, to read different kinds of silence.
I liked the idea of speaking indirectly while still telling the truth.
Of course, the Commission also has spoken indirectly through a number of enforcement actions, which necessarily involved finding that the token offerings at issue were securities offerings.
In 2014, Trump told a press luncheon that he "spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer".
In 2014, at a National Press Club lunch in Washington, Trump remarked that he had spoken "indirectly and directly" with Putin, "who could not have been nicer".
He came closest in their meeting with business executives from American and Brazilian corporations, but Mr. Obama spoke indirectly, more in terms of social and economic status than race.
And he lies about his relationship to Putin, first claiming that he had "got to know him very well" and that they had spoken "indirectly and directly", then saying he had no relationship with him.
The research found that women were four times more likely than men to be self-deprecating, use humour and speak indirectly or apologetically when broaching difficult subjects with board members in order to avoid conflict.
In 2014, Trump told a National Press Club luncheon: "I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer, and we had a tremendous success".
