Sentence examples for touched directly from inspiring English sources

"Most people have heard of cholera but have never been touched directly by cholera," Cormency added.

Wright survived the war and became a minister, perhaps the last man touched directly by the charismatic Delony.

It doesn't matter if we are touched directly; it can be an uncle, a grandma, a cousin.

But the Tibet crisis has touched directly on the raw nerve of separatism at the core of Chinese nationalism.

Unlike earlier leaders, like Sarah Brady or Representative Carolyn McCarthy, these organizers were not touched directly by violence.

He rarely touched directly on the big events of the times but, like the European novelists he so enjoyed, he explored historical trends as experienced by ordinary people.

We usually think about technology changing our world in terms of things it touches directly.

But like Suez, the invasion of Iraq did touch directly on the relations between the UK and the US.

For it touches directly on the most neuralgic question in contemporary Catholicism: the constitution of the priesthood.

Mr. Rubio did not touch directly on immigration, an issue that has been divisive for Republicans and troublesome for him personally.

"Many of these conservative measures, be they abortion, affirmative action or gay marriage, may be very risky for McCain to touch directly because voters are very focused on the economy and the war," Dr. Smith said.