Example sentences of "led directly to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His venom against a country of 3 million people not only reinforced the Latin American image of the US as a bully , it also led directly to the Iran-contra scandal , the most serious political crisis of his administration . |
| 2 | It also led directly to the headsman ‘ s axe for Andrew Hardie of Glasgow and John Baird of Condoratt in the Parish of Cumbernauld . |
| 3 | Between the study and the library was the small spiral staircase which led directly to the Emperor 's apartments , a staircase she was to climb on 3 September 1870 , clutching in her hand the telegram announcing the capitulation at Sedan and crying out in grief at the horror of it . |
| 4 | Kamal Jumblatt 's assassination in 1977 led directly to the succession of his son Walid as leader of the Druze and as commander of the ‘ Leftist Alliance ’ , the agglomeration of Lebanese Muslim and Palestinian guerrillas which generally represented the nationalists . |
| 5 | Sukarno 's repressive nationalist regime led directly to the massacre of perhaps a million of his communist supporters , gross civil rights abuses , torture , the illegal invasion of East Timor , and the current police state . |
| 6 | In the twentieth century it was the growth in the power and influence of this élite , along with the example of the Indian movement for independence , which led directly to the end of colonial rule . |
| 7 | Follow-up of this reference in 1978 led directly to the identification of a Cu-Zn-Au deposit ( Jones and others , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Its door could be opened from the inside and led directly to the corridor . |
| 9 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 10 | His conclusion that : " The necessity for a reconsideration of the library arises … from the adoption by many institutions of methods of teaching which emphasize student responsibility and self-direction , " ( op. cit. : 8 ) led directly to the kind of experimentation which took place at Monteith , and which is vividly recorded in Dr Knapp 's seminal account . |
| 11 | This action led directly to the Suez Crisis of that year ( CORE , pp. 141–3 ) . |
| 12 | These two scrutinies led directly to the two other major planks of the Thatcher government 's managerial approach within central government ; namely , MINIS and the Financial Management Initiative ( FMI ) . |
| 13 | It crossed the River Carrow and led directly to the estates of the rich . |
| 14 | The pattern of a single central bank was broken and the creation of the Royal Bank led directly to the establishment of such competitors as the British Linen Bank ( 1746 ) , the Commercial Bank ( 1810 ) and the National Bank ( 1825 ) . |