Sentence examples for spoke indirectly from inspiring English sources

In 2014, Trump told a press luncheon that he "spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer".

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".

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.

When he was in Moscow for the Miss Universe contest in 2013, and an interviewer for MSNBC asked him about Putin, he said, "I do have a relationship and I can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing here today"; at a subsequent National Press Club luncheon, he recalled, "I spoke indirectly and directly with President Putin, who could not have been nicer".

We will learn to speak indirectly, to read different kinds of silence.

I liked the idea of speaking indirectly while still telling the truth.

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".

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.

Since it involves hospitals, schools and other public institutions, motherhood kind of forced the community out into the open, although the Berner-Kadishes say that many of their friends still speak indirectly about "our situation".

Though perhaps here they are merely speaking indirectly (c.f. Horgan and Potrč 2006).