With this toehold established, the British then took a firmer grip on the area, developing a system of indirect rule that has hardly changed since.

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The idea behind the series of taxes, after the failure of the Stamp Act, was to try a system of indirect taxes since the colonists had reacted so strongly to the direct stamp tax.

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The ITV is also an important component of the Expeditionary Fire Support System, which allows a mobile mortar system to provide long-range indirect fire support to infantry forces as part of the Marine Corps' "Ship to Objective Maneuver" doctrine.

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They proclaimed the observation as the first visual - albeit indirect - proof of a planet outside our Solar System.

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