Word: indirectness
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...Embassy spokesman John Stewart said the "extra precautions" were ordered because of "a warning of potential threat....Some sort of indirect, indefinite threat received by somebody from somebody...
...area of funding, the effect of Friends would remain largely indirect but still tangible. Ideally, the coalition would contribute primarily to occasional extraordinary expenses, such as a new auditorium, stadium, or lab expansion. In those extraordinary cases. Friends could help raise money to supplement regular education allocations. Some restrictions might be needed to limit any disparities arising from the varying wealth of communities. Without such provisions, wealthy communities could easily satiate their own educational appetites and thwart efforts to raise taxes for less prosperous areas. Executed fairly, a Friends system could increase all taxpayers support for education through a heightened...
...admitted that in April he had told two Canberra lobbyists that the government was about to ban official contact with Combe, and asked them not to enter into a proposed partnership with him. The request, Hawke insisted, was legitimate because it was aimed at denying Combe any indirect access and thus at maintaining the "integrity of the government." Two days later, contact with Combe was formally banned...
Introducing this collection of 20 exemplary tales, culled from slick magazines and small literary journals, Editor William Abrahams notes: "However little attention they overtly pay to the public life of our time, these stories reflect in a more truthful way, at however indirect an angle of vision, the realities of contemporary life as most of us know...
...every alcove of the vaulted church, that he stood beneath the Cross, "together with all my compatriots-especially those who are most acutely tasting the bitterness of disappointment, humiliation, suffering, of being deprived of their freedom, of being wronged, of having their dignity trampled upon." Then, in a second indirect appeal to jailed Solidarity supporters, he cited Wyszynski's three-year ordeal under house arrest during a state campaign against the church in the 1950s as an example of how to draw strength from adversity. The congregation burst into applause when John Paul thanked God that Wyszynski had been...