"It allows us to provide direct assistance when there is a critical need," she added.

Some songs might even have made their way in with direct American assistance.

I am writing to ask for your direct assistance in educating a child.

Local officials, though, note that direct Federal assistance for housing declined by 60 percent between 1981 and 1989.

William, I can provide you with nothing in the way of direct assistance either.

How much direct assistance the Pentagon can provide, though, remains in question.

Officials said another, smaller package of less than $5 million in direct medical assistance is being considered and could be announced this week.

I am writing to ask for your direct assistance in our education programs and artistic product.

To date it has provided over $95,000 in direct financial assistance to 18 local musicians.

"Some countries here will want to go with direct economic assistance," he said.

Then he moved to Pakistan in 2001 and became a conduit directing assistance from Britain to Afghan refugees in Pakistan, he said.

Directs technical assistance to non-Federal interests to evaluate the structural integrity of the bulkhead system along the Cuyahoga River in the vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio.

A June 26, 2007, announcement by the Ministry of Cults and Religions restated a 2003 ban on door-to-door proselytizing and similar proselytizing activities such as using a loudspeaker or directing assistance only to denomination members.

Individuals or groups take advantage of government programs aimed at distributing resources or funds to the general public by using their elite influence to direct such assistance in such a way that it primarily benefits the elite group.

The agency directs and oversees U.S. foreign military sales, foreign military financing programs, international military education and training programs, and humanitarian assistance and demining programs.

Land tenure systems and reluctance to direct financial and technical assistance to the women who do the majority of the work on many farms are social issues that undermine farm productivity, as are civil strife and AIDS.

You suggest that canceling the debt of poor countries would threaten the viability of the International Development Association, the World Bank program that directs assistance to the poorest countries.

The pantry is stocked with the support of the Neediest Cases Fund, one of many ways that donations to the fund go to direct services and assistance for the city's poor.

Mr. Bush's senior advisers are already presenting the case that the President made a discrete move in a confined area, and that this was not a signal that he will abandon his cautious approach to direct economic assistance.

Considerable progress was also made in directing assistance "to the most disadvantaged recipients over the whole range of welfare benefits."