But generally barred from performing in the United States, they are forced to take its music from secondhand sources.

He wanted to quote me about what I had done the night before rather than rely on a secondhand source like an FBI spokesman.

Primarily the victims have been Cardassians and Ferengi; Starfleet learned about them through secondhand sources.

Lord Kinross's 33-year-old book is informative and highly readable, but it is based largely on secondhand sources and presents much legend as fact.

He says, for example, that "Ransom" relies principally on secondhand sources.

-Comment made by Zensunni elder, secondhand source It was Ishmael's last chance to save the man he had raised as his son.

Throughout the cold war and often in the years since, Western diplomats covering the Kremlin routinely relied on indirect and secondhand or thirdhand sources.

The problems inherent in such exercises go well beyond the dangers of using secondhand sources.

But she had to rely on secondhand and thirdhand sources to get the news.

A few Pakistani and international news stories, most of which rely on secondhand sources rather than on eyewitness accounts, offer the basic details.