The phrase "a common direction of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a shared or general trend, path, or focus among a group or in a particular context.
Example: "The research indicates a common direction of interest among the participants towards sustainable practices."
Alternatives: "a shared focus on" or "a general trend of".
Because the space exhibits this vacuum birefringence effect, the light passing through it must get polarized, and it should all exhibit a common direction of polarization.
Like a well-drilled marching band that spells out the school's letters by having some members march in a different direction than the rest, a common direction of motion can also make shapes jump out of a pattern.
We also note that collective testing is predicated on a common direction of effect, which implies that one-sided tests are appropriate.
We assessed the GO term annotations for the clusters of Core MYC signature genes that display a common direction of response and found that the induced genes and repressed genes have a very similar set of overrepresented GO Terms to that found in the individual studies described below (see below, Supplemental Table S2).
A greater number of female-biased than male-biased genes showed a common direction of sex-bias in two or all three tissues (Table 2).
In contrast, ROC SEMPPR estimates selection coefficients and other key parameters by assuming a common direction of selection on CUB, but where the strength of selection varies with protein synthesis rate.
Szydło spoke of a "common direction" and said was hopeful that a solution could be found to keep the UK in Europe.
The wheels work like molecular ratchets to all spin in a common direction when fed a fuel of energized electrons from a scanning tunneling microscope.
The vortex theory likewise provided a built-in explanation for the common direction of all planetary orbits.
The first is that the direction of time in a region of space-time is the most common direction of increasing entropy among multiple nearly isolated systems in that region.
These groupings are made on the basis of such things as observed similarity (e.g., red versus black dots), proximity, common direction of movement, perceptual set (the way one is expecting to see things grouped), and extrapolation (one's estimate of what will happen based on an extension of what is now happening).
