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Art cognizes reality by its own means, which are more indirect and roundabout, than those of science or historiography.
The association between dative case and recipients or benefactives holds for direct objects and subjects as well as indirect objects.
Some flexibility can be gained by adding one microinstruction to the interpreter to use indirect threaded code.
Taxpayers, of course, have to pay for this shilly-shallying, directly in extra pay for legislators and through indirect costs.
The stable immobilization appears to be an indirect proof that the tethered lipid bilayer lack defects on the mesoscale.
Instruments can become indirect means of communication for autistic children.
To ask them to take something from theater or dance or music, to see the indirect sources of creativity that they could use is asking them a lot.
In effect, investing in a FTSE 100 index tracker also gives you an indirect investment in China.
Practitioners who have had some experience with the application of indirect moxa should have no difficulties with this technique.
When a sentence has an indirect object, that constituent may also function as a marked theme, the focus of attention, by beginning the sentence.
The commentaries are not at all what they seem to the student puzzling over the ablative absolutes and indirect discourse.
But sceptics say he still has to cut spending or raise taxes to balance the books and could raise indirect taxes in next year's budget.
However, some transitive verbs take a prepositional phrase instead of an indirect object.
But in Standard Spoken English, we use the indirect quotative almost exclusively.
Eliminate the glare from artificial light by switching from direct to indirect overhead lighting.
It will be a matter of judgment whether and how to take account of indirect evidence.
The jungle of various direct and indirect subsidies must be severely trimmed and taxes must be reduced.
Shielded lamps and indirect luminaires prevent the lighting installation from aggravating the problems of stress.
It is estimated that a million cubic meters of water is capable of creating 200 jobs in direct and indirect agriculturally generated occupations.
The system is employed in a variety of modes, including autonomous, air-to-ground, direct or indirect, single-shot and rapid or ripple fire.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The indirect object may be used as the object of the preposition to or for.
In this sentence, him is not the indirect object of the verb, but is the object of the preposition for.
The object of a verb may be the direct object, the predicate objective, the indirect object, the cognate object.
Matrimony should not be committed in a round-about, indirect, hit-or-miss manner.
Will China be able to continue its eighteenth-century dream of direct or indirect domination of Southeast Asia?
The indirect object of money-making is also the increase of the agreeable feelings.
And you had no information direct or indirect of any kind or character, scuttlebutt, hearsay or otherwise, up to that moment?
Mr. Ackerman put it as plainly as his bias in favour of indirect speech would permit.
The lights which he throws on his subject are indirect, but they are not the less real for that.
Not all poets were as strict as Ovid in using the subjunctive in indirect questions.
An indirect statement is joined to the main verb or sentence by the subordinating conjunction ke, that.
Very indirect and imperfect indications of the prevalence of certain kinds of food poisoning are afforded by casual press reports.
Father Sabetti denied that it is indirect, but he held that it is licit for another reason.
Beyond these, the direct advantages of neurectomy, are other and more indirect advantages which claim attention.
Since the indirect object is equivalent to an adverbial phrase, it is classed as a modifier of the verb.
Is their indirect object to be strong, thrifty members of society?
The little man had conveyed his wish of this by indirect speech.
The only evidence, however, we can get at is indirect and inferential.
The increase in indirect taxation had been wholly in sumptuary taxes.
The monogenists then resorted to an argumentation still more indirect.
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