Besides the promise of cash and loan guarantees, America has other, more indirect means of persuasion.

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During the years that Pope was a legislator, he explored more indirect means of gaining political influence as well.

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Too many cash out through indirect means, triggering taxes all at once.

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Consequently, in the interest of maximizing the salability of these indirect means of constraining nuclear forces, some of their champions have simply dissembled.

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This Sarkozy trade, as it is sometimes known in the markets, was an indirect (if inefficient) means for the ECB to support sovereigns.

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Effectively the VIE structure means that equity holders have a somewhat indirect financial interest in the revenue and earnings stream and do not actually have a claim on the assets of the company in question.

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"Councils want to intervene more quickly, but decades of giving schools 'greater freedom' and 'protecting' them from council interference means that local authorities now have very indirect and bureaucratic ways to tackle poor performance, " he said.

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