It has an influence that derives indirectly from line authority at a higher level.

Numerous later uses of the term, up to the present, are derived directly or indirectly from the Roman one.

Many of the following are derived directly or indirectly from Mozart's name:

Almost all chloroplasts are thought to derive directly or indirectly from a single endosymbiotic event.

As a result, knowledge about women's experiences is often derived indirectly from studies which describe household patterns of income, expenditure and consumption.

Some part of the inhabitants of each, therefore, will indirectly derive their revenue and maintenance from the other.

The English word embarrassed is indirectly derived from the Spanish word.

The name is derived indirectly from Thomas Jefferson.

I hold sacred the right to disrespect views directly or indirectly derived from holy books, especially those which result in conquest and subjugation.

Parker expressed in 1842 the "firm conviction... that nine out of ten outrages committed by the blacks" derived either directly or indirectly from sexual relations.