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Example sentences for "direct action"

  • But it has been shown that the same direct action of climate which originates new colours, produces also in some species differences of form (contour of wing, size, &c.

  • Nor can the transforming influence of direct action, as upheld by Lamarck, be called in question, although its extent cannot as yet be estimated with any certainty.

  • The efficiency reached in specialization is higher than that of direct action and of low levels of labor division.

  • What distinguishes them is a strategy for survival and preservation that progressively departs from immediate needs and direct action to humanized needs and mediated action.

  • The efficiency reached is higher than that of direct action or of low levels of labor division.

  • Do think a bit about what is meant by direct action of physical conditions.

  • It is not clear why a belief in "direct action" should diminish the glory of Natural Selection, since the changes so produced must, like any other variations, pass through the ordeal of the survival of the fittest.

  • On the whole question of direct action see Mr. Adam Sedgwick's "Presidential Address to the Zoological Section of the British Association," 1899.

  • In view of the fact that antitoxin has a direct action on toxin, we may say that theoretically this may take place in one of two ways.

  • They further showed that this substance acted by combining with the organisms and apparently producing some alteration in them; on the other hand it had no direct action on the leucocytes.

  • The second view may now be said to be established, and, though the question cannot be fully discussed here, the chief grounds in support of a direct action may be given.

  • The tactics back of the words sabotage and "direct action" had been practiced by American working men years before those words ever came into use among our radical unionists.

  • Many legitimate delegates raised their voices against anarchy expressed through sabotage and direct action.

  • He concluded from his studies in seasonal dimorphism, "that differences of specific value can originate through the direct action of external conditions of life only.

  • In other words, all people are, most of the time, believers in the principle of direct action, and practisers of it.

  • The last years of her life were filled with the spirit of direct action, and especially with the social importance of the Mexican Revolution.

  • They were convinced that the Americans had abandoned political action and were turning to what they had already begun to call "direct action.

  • It is plain, then, that government cannot possibly keep up competition by direct action.

  • Direct action, having proven effective along economic lines, is equally potent in the environment of the individual.

  • True, the trade in white flesh is still going on; but that, too, will have to be abolished by direct action.

  • Trade-unionism, the economic arena of the modern gladiator, owes its existence to direct action.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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