Sentence examples for was not direct from inspiring English sources

The Israeli retaliatory raid was not direct retribution itself.

''I started to recognize that if there was not direct intervention by normal people, black space in the United States would not be saved,'' Gates says.

To Melvin Tumin [1942] Dearest Moissay:... Two weeks ago I stopped work on my novel — it was not direct enough — and have since solaced myself with a book called "The Notebook of a Dangling Man".

In his shorter, imagist poems, Pound sought to abolish all that was not direct; he disliked the pedestrianism of figurative language, those similes and metaphors that abstract and slow down perception.

AASHTO cited that the route was not direct, and SR-24 was not built to U.S. Highway standards.

During the drive my boyfriend, whose family was not direct descendants of slaves, asked me what did it feel like to experience the tour and contemplate the magnitude of how far "we as black Americans" have come.

The criticism was not directed against the Native American Program, however.

But their anger was not directed at Murdoch.

Furthermore, repair fulfils transactional and interpersonal goals, but was not directed at problems of acceptability.

It was not directed at who I am; it was directed at my actions.

Obviously, Abdurrahman was not directing his followers to read pro-IS media.