Sentence examples for they were directly from inspiring English sources

Some of these were "patriarchal," which meant that they were directly responsible to a patriarch.

"The fighters I was speaking with said they were directly fighting Hezbollah," he said.

"Either they were directly involved in all these shenanigans, or they wanted to look the other way," he added.

In 1992, when they were directly employed by the oil giant, their basic pay was around £32,000 for a 37-hour week.

"I think they were directly responsible for the fact that for eight years we had no further mass casualty attacks against the United States," he said.

Mr. Dalal told them in English that they were directly above him and that he could see them through a chink of light in the concrete floor.

20 November 2008: Gage said he intended to question every soldier who witnessed the incident, whether or not they were directly responsible.

Scullion was asked whether he had been briefed about the inquiries done in the NT given they were directly relevant to his portfolio responsibilities.

They were directly implicated in the notorious three-part News of the World exposé in February 1967 on drug-taking in pop.

Again the group said they were directly told by Australia immigration officials and Vietnamese government officers that they would not be arrested or imprisoned.

Researchers classed deaths as alcohol-related if they were directly due to consumption, including chronic conditions such as liver disease and cirrhosis, as well as acute conditions.