indirect

indirectly | American Dictionary

indirectly
adverb
us/ˌɪn·dəˈrek·tli, ˌɪn·dɑɪ-/
in a way that is not direct or not connected in a simple way:
She controls the company indirectly, through a hand-picked board of directors.

Examples of indirectly

indirectly
The problem is that each player's use indirectly interferes with the other's use and that some arrangement is necessary to reconcile both uses.
I shall start with the historiographical reason that, indirectly, also leads us to consider the more philosophical reason.
The basic problem: most chaotic systems' chaotic properties don't seem very relevant, directly or indirectly, to human life.
Thus, tactical voting should ideally be measured directly, rather than indirectly.
More indirectly, these two stylistic dimensions mark different epistemic relations to the discourse, emphasizing and privileging different kinds of information.
However, there are two kinds of space produced by culture that are linked to the enacted spaces and the agential, but sometimes only indirectly.
At present, the adaptive manipulation hypotheses are supported only indirectly, with reference to the apparent functionality and complexity of the host modification.
A range of new questions has arisen, and the latest developments have indirectly opened up still wider areas of research.
I learned to comprehend the museum itself as an artistic and indirectly political ensemble in a complex historical and economic setting.
It may further be the case that the religious beliefs of ordinary people derive, albeit indirectly, from these extraordinary types.
The neutralising tendency of the two sites must evidently be related indirectly to relations involving neighbouring nuclear positions.
Another kind of contribution that states can make, again only indirectly, to people's welfare is temporal in nature.
Acts that appear altruistic may turn out to serve self-interest indirectly when account is taken of side-effects (rewards and punishments), or delayed effects (reputation).
Then these genetic variants must interact either directly or indirectly with the environment so that in the last analysis replication is differential.
Privatisation is usually part and parcel of standard reform packages, being also indirectly promoted by the requirements of reducing public deficits and protecting property rights.
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