You can deal with less serious concerns directly or indirectly.

Scholars deal with these problems only indirectly by reasoning about the great thinkers' differences.

Police science is often an ambiguous term that denotes the studies and research which directly or indirectly deal with police work.

Vogel was useful to both sides of the cold war because he provided them with a way of dealing indirectly with each other.

The show indirectly deals with the concepts of morality and ethics.

There are three ways of dealing with a topic indirectly.

A third way of dealing with a topic indirectly, perhaps the most difficult to handle, is to use analogy.

The Commission is proposing to sort out the multitude of regulations and directives which deal directly or indirectly with food.

Avoiding facework attempts to preserve harmony in the relationship by dealing with the conflict indirectly.

"I told him then that he would have to deal with me on this issue directly or indirectly," Ms. Woodbury said.