6 sentences with 'indirect'
Example sentences and phrases with the word indirect and other words derived from it.
• « In the late 1950s, 37% of Western European families' income was indirect, subsidies "paid" by their governments in the form of housing allowances, food subsidies, health care and education. European governments spent four times as much revenue on social services in 1957 as they did in 1930. »
• « Non-ionising radiation, so called because its effects on organic matter - us, among other things - are very indirect and subtle compared to those of "ionising radiation" such as radioactivity, gamma rays, etc., which can directly disintegrate biological structures. »
• « Authoritarian regimes are considered to be those that value command and disregard consensus and agreement among members of society. In such cases, power is concentrated in one man, or in one body, and representative institutions that allow for direct or indirect participation by members of society are suppressed or ignored. »
• « The British Constitution promised representation of the will of British subjects, and without that representation, even the indirect taxation of the Sugar Act was seen as a threat to the colonists' rights as British subjects. »