Meanings of taken direct in English

It has also taken direct control of the appointments of senior civil servants.

We reached Reims at noon and were taken direct to the City Club.

None of these visitors were taken direct to the yards.

The Minister could also have taken direct steps to encourage the expansion and opening of childcare facilities.

The helicopter meant that GT, the Met's Central Command, had taken direct operational control of the disturbance.

The 170 lines of it are full of phrases which might be taken direct from the sonnets.

Spain's central government has taken direct control of Catalonia and sacked officials following the region's banned independence referendum.

The US has taken direct military action for the first time against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.

Personal experiments on the spot prove that these nutmegs germinate less readily than those taken direct from the tree.

The official said the education bureau has taken direct charge of the school's administration and had frozen its bank account.

In our entire campaign he has openly criticised us, but he has never taken direct attacks towards us, she said.

But at formal dinners, dishes are never passed twice, and are therefore taken direct to the pantry after being passed.

Parliament has taken direct control of state media, on the basis that "public media are ignoring their mission towards the nation".

Spain's central government has now taken direct control of Catalonia so why is the Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont no longer in the country.

Jenkins had taken direct control of ERBB since Deanna Oppenheimer quit as UK and European retail banking boss at the end of last year.

The Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition's latest proposal, which, on Tuesday night was officially gazetted into law, has taken direct aim at clothing retailers.