The phrase "a consistent direction to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing guidance or a clear path towards a specific goal or outcome.
Example: "The manager provided a consistent direction to the team, ensuring everyone was aligned with the project's objectives."
Alternatives: "a steady guidance towards" or "a clear path to".
Despite his verbal fits and starts, however, there is a consistent direction to the president's policies, toward democracy, openness, tolerance and the rule of law.
Donors now have significant financial investment, and a shared desire to influence change, but there is no consensus between them that would provide a consistent direction to drive change.
There was a consistent direction to the comparisons of the main outcome measures and satisfaction scores in favour of 'full-PCT', though the differences between the groups were not significant.
Calculating all alignments in a consistent direction with respect to the reference read produces a more accurate multialignment, particularly near homopolymer runs.
Protein spots exhibiting twofold or higher change in density (Student's t test, P < 0.05) in a consistent direction were considered to be different and selected for further identification.
Future research that addresses parallel changes in a number of different health behaviours in a consistent direction over time would begin to clarify this question.
At each individual lumbar spinal level, there was a consistent direction for the intervertebral disc height to be smaller among people with greater pain and or disability, compared to those without.
Health status ranged from 1 (i.e., excellent) to 5 (i.e., poor) and was coded as such in order to maintain a consistent direction with higher numbers representing poorer health.
When selection has a consistent direction, just a few adaptive mutations are required to reach a local peak, and different local peaks can be reached by adaptive walks starting from the same initial genotype.
The overall effect in the replication studies (stage 2 studies) was in a consistent direction but not significant (OR=1.06, 95% CI 0.98 to 1.16, p=0.16).
North of the Tropic of Cancer marks increased photoperiod variation in a consistent direction and a point beyond which photoperiod variation has been observed to effect reproductive behavior in non-human primates [87].
