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If you were going to accept multiparty democracy after 10 years of war, why go about this in a roundabout way?

He made sure of his back burrows, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue.

This is just a roundabout way of me reinforcing one of my favorite points: it's NOT what you say, it's HOW you say it.

My roundabout way of asking was to bring up the fact that the reception was for the cast and the reporters who had just screened the film.

The concept of 'surplus value' is extremely simple to be understood, without talk in a roundabout way and based on assume.

Suing HTC may be a roundabout way to attack Google, but if successful, it would be a powerful blow against the search giant.

All of which is a roundabout way of saying that the assessment of the Iraq war is a project for the next decade, not the next week.

The light and heat energy from coal also comes from the sun in a roundabout way.

The light and heat energy from coal comes from the sun in a roundabout way.

The phrase to follow suit relates as well, although in a roundabout way.

Control the traffic scientifically, distribute traffic flow in a roundabout way, and evacuate and dissuade staying passenger.

Which is a roundabout way of saying I end up blasting the ball to row Z and beyond in my early attempts to precision-place a pass.

It took some intervention on the part of the host to make her understand that that was my roundabout way of answering her.

In a roundabout way, that confusion can teach us something: Christians should be the kindest of all people.

Yet, in a roundabout way, Black's approach also led to some of the late boom's most disastrous lapses.

This is appropriate, in a roundabout way, because alongside the theme of hard, brutal justice, this story also concerns the American dream.

These US investments were both, in a roundabout way, funded by foreign exchange reserves.

The lesson that draws others often conduces to us reducing error, avoid to fail, take roundabout way less.

detour: a roundabout way or course, especially a road used temporarily instead of a main route.

This had to be done in a roundabout way so that the participants didn't suspect they were being manipulated.

So, albeit in a roundabout way, freedom of speech is being realised in this "guesting" way.

One day something happened which in a roundabout way was enlightening.

She made a suggestion in a very roundabout way.

She suggested it in a very roundabout way.

When you meet some difficulties while speaking, you can say in a roundabout way.

Again, it is like reaching a near-by village by boat in a roundabout way along a winding river.

The Civil War gave us Tabasco in a much more roundabout way.

You can't say in a jumbled roundabout way. If you love her, please tell her.

But it is still a very roundabout way to democracy.

I got into fashion in a roundabout way.

He didn't agree to your opinions, but said so in a roundabout way.

Japan, too, has been arming itself in a roundabout way.

The taxi didn't go by the direct route, but in a roundabout way.

He always asks me favors in a roundabout way.

We heard the news in a roundabout way.

He always talks in a roundabout way.

But of the three tests, the government has agreed, in a roundabout way, only to "respect" earlier accords.

I say nothing in a roundabout way.

Besides, Chinese seldom express what they think directly and they prefer a roundabout way.

I speak in roundabout way.

"It ends up being a roundabout way to tax people, " Hauter says.

The car has to come a roundabout way.

I heard In a roundabout way that she's goIng to marry an old neIghBorof theIrs

detour: a roundabout way one used temporarily when the main route is closed

Talk in a roundabout way. Roundabout