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Example sentences for "either directly"

  • Of the several individual factors, which are especially potent, as tending to develop and perpetuate the Insane Diathesis, there are none which can be regarded as more influential, either directly or indirectly, than alcohol.

  • Of the sixteen hundred insane and imbecile or feeble-minded persons in Connecticut at the present time, it is estimated that not less than one fifth have become so either directly or indirectly through the influence of alcohol.

  • In one sense the conditions of life may be said, not only to cause variability, either directly or indirectly, but likewise to include natural selection, for the conditions determine whether this or that variety shall survive.

  • Under proper treatment the usual termination is in recovery, either directly or by conversion into the intermittent type.

  • The competency of the law-making power to abolish slavery has been recognized by all the slaveholding States, either directly or by implication.

  • For there is no Legislative power vested in Congress but what may be either directly or indirectly exercised by the Treaty-making power.

  • To allow is more positive, denoting (at least originally and etymologically) a decided assent, either directly or by implication.

  • The sugar is converted, either directly or indirectly, into alcohol and carbonic acid, the rate of action being dependent on the rapidity with which the Torulæ develop.

  • Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations.

  • We must confine ourselves to those parts of his discoveries which benefitted geography, either directly or indirectly.

  • For money nowadays is always spent, either directly, by its owners, or by some one to whom he lends it.

  • These companies, either directly or through subsidiary companies controlled in the same interest, carry on mining operations, carry the coal to market, and sell it.

  • No material connection of any kind whatever exists, either directly or indirectly, between the two masses.

  • The energy acting in these secondary processes is, in every case, derived, either directly or indirectly, from the energy of rotation or axial energy of the earth.

  • The phenomena of transmission usually serve, either directly or indirectly, to portray the precise nature of the energy taking part in the operation.

  • But these men traded with others who did trade with Germany, either directly or through third and fourth and maybe fifth parties.

  • We find, however, neither of these, but simply a statement that all things are in relation in one of two ways, either directly, or as being a part of a difference.

  • The chief source of the subject-matter presented is a work of the same name by Aenesidemus,[1] either directly used by Sextus, or through the writings of those who followed Aenesidemus.

  • Either directly or by inference, she quite generally attempted to furnish the antidote for what she considered the pernicious doctrine of her fellow-minister.

  • It does not appear that in the brief communications of George Jones he either directly or indirectly referred to statements made by Elias Hicks, or particularly sought to antagonize them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    air and water pollution; changed habits; early spring; either because; either belligerent; either case; either direction; either directly; either fresh; either from; either hand; either house; either husband; either part; either party; either player; give another; going forth; half acres; hereditary monarchy; necessary for; que par; steel helmet; the whole; twentieth century; when elected