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direction

A direction is a way to move or point. "Where is the post office?" "I think it's that direction." Which direction is north? We were walking up Queen St. when she suddenly turned and starting walking in the opposite direction. Directions are steps that tell you what to do or how to do something. Your doctors directions are to take two of these with water before eating. Direction is control or management. The company is now under the direction of new owners.

direction

(= way) a line leading to a place or point he looked the other direction didn't know the way home the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves he checked the direction and velocity of the wind a general course along which something has a tendency to develop I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts his ideals determined the direction of his career they proposed a new direction for the firm something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action (= management) the act of managing something he was given overall management of the program is the direction of the economy a function of government? a message describing how something is to be done he gave directions faster than she could follow them the act of setting and holding a course a new council was installed under the direction of the king (= charge) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something the judge's charge to the jury (= focus, focusing, focussing) the concentration of attention or energy on something the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology he had no direction in his life

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Simple sentences

By mistake I boarded a train going in the opposite direction.
You're going in the wrong direction.
Harry is working under the direction of an expert.
Tom was going in the wrong direction.
You have no sense of direction.
He lost his sense of direction in the dark woods.
There is no access to the building from this direction.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
It is of great significance in this experiment to accelerate the particle M in the horizontal direction.
You have a sharp sense of direction.
The army was advancing in the wrong direction.
It seems that our sense of direction is not always reliable.
We hurried in the direction of the fire.
The typhoon moved in a westerly direction.
The thief ran away in the direction of the station.
I am going in the same direction. Come with me. I will take you there.
John is walking in the direction of the station.
I looked in the direction of the window, but didn't see anything.
Which direction did he go?
He ran away in the direction of the wood.
He has no sense of direction.
She steered our efforts in the right direction.
Drugs should be used only at the direction of a doctor.
I went in the direction my friend indicated.
From the direction that he was going in, I would say he was headed to town.

Movie subtitles

Is he coming in my direction?
Puny shopkeeper, tremble in fear As we forcibly redistribute your wealth in our direction.
In most cases, clients would run in the opposite direction.
In contrast, it is not unknown to me, so I will accompany you and provide direction.
Set decoration based on designs by and under the direction of Kurt Richter, produced in his own studio.
For the photography I am grateful to Mr. Johan Ankerstjerne and to Mr. Richard Louw for the art direction.
The 1991 restoration, under the direction of Pierre Philippe and Jean-Louis Bompoint, was revised in 2001 by Luce Vigo and Bernard Eisenschitz in collaboration with Gaumont.
Go on, Jenkins. You heard the cries. and you ran in the direction from which they came.
No, in the same direction.
Any child knows how to tell direction.
We're travelling in the wrong direction.
We're going in the wrong direction.
We're going in the opposite direction.
He's starting out right away in the direction of India.
In the direction perpendicular to the disc the size was much smaller, of the order of 7,000 light years.
They can do that in the same direction Or in the opposite direction.
We had to know exactly in which direction the instrument would be pointing.
The Blessed who abducted Ivan headed in the direction of the Savior tank plant, which also happens to be a company capable of creating a man-made virus?
He's able to change the temperature so drastically by aligning air molecules according to the direction of motion.
She points her ivory-handled revolver into the dark, in the direction of the noise she heard, and she shoots.
Make him tell you which direction.
And that's the direction in which he pointed.
Afraid we'll lose our direction.
I shall be riding often in the direction of Norwood, Miss Spenlow.
You heard the cries. and you ran in the direction from which they came.
WERE YOU WORKING ME, TOO? WAS THIS LITTLE FLING OF OURS JUST A WAY TO GET ME LOOKING IN THE OTHER DIRECTION?
Wind direction: NE.
SE. Wind direction: NE.
I seem to have lost my sense of direction.
That's drinking in the right direction.
It's about a mile in that direction.
When you speak about the bamboo on the left, you should point in that direction.
In which. which direction is there no fire?
We can stand up in every direction.
Direction, 165 degrees.

News and current affairs

The Council would declare that further proliferation of nuclear weapons is a threat to peace, and that any country moving in that direction is subject to sanctions.
Instead, the European Union needs a new direction.
The recent debt deal is a move in the wrong direction.
At the Millennium Assembly in 2000, the US promised to pursue reduction of global poverty, yet it has taken few steps in that direction.
The problem is not only that foreign capital flows can easily reverse direction, but also that they produce the wrong kind of growth, based on overvalued currencies and investments in non-traded goods and services, such as housing and construction.
Recent moves to ease monetary policy have been a step in the right direction; but, so far, they have not proved to be a game changer.
But Europe should move more decisively in this direction.
Setting standards and goals of human rights is a powerful signal that a country is pointing itself in the right direction.
This has given new strength to those who want Turkey to develop in another direction, towards a more Islamic society instead of a modern secular state.
China, Vietnam, India: all three violated virtually every rule in the neoliberal guidebook, even as they moved in a more market-oriented direction.
NEW YORK - Dark, lowering financial and economic clouds are, it seems, rolling in from every direction: the eurozone, the United States, China, and elsewhere.
At least the Initiative pointed in the right direction.
Already, international actions have pushed the G-7 in a new and hopeful direction.
So the al-Saud have become Janus-faced: looking in one direction, the royal family encourages democratic reformers to speak out; looking in the opposite direction, it jails them when they do.
An absolute majority of citizens in each of the surveyed countries are convinced that their country is heading in the wrong direction.
Less than one in 10 Croats (whose country could be joining the EU in the near future) believes that their country is heading in the right direction.
It is impossible to overestimate how significant a step Barack Obama's election is in this direction, but America's actions over the coming years will be the ultimate determinant of whether the power of America's model can be restored.
If the world is going to shift in the direction of a new and more globally democratic system, other nations will need to meaningfully step forward to assume new responsibilities.
These considerations suggest an obvious direction for the next iteration of the MDGs.
But Europe should move more decisively in this direction. Otherwise, speculation on member states' national debt will persist, keeping borrowing costs at levels that are inconsistent with the conditions required to sustain economic recovery.
Enlargement of the EU with a number of Central and Eastern European countries will strengthen resistance to Franco-German initiatives in this direction.
It is possible to argue the economics both ways, but the politics all point in one direction.

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