The phrase "a different direction after" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a change in course or approach following a specific event or decision.
Example: "After reviewing the feedback, we decided to take a different direction after the initial proposal."
Alternatives: "a new path following" or "an alternative route after".
Often, small groups of Taliban opened up from a different direction after the Marines had faced several minutes of fire.
But the Brotherhood took a different direction after Mr. Qutb's death, and Qaeda leaders came to hold the organization in contempt.
Roughly three in four wanted to move the city in a different direction after 12 years with Mr. Bloomberg, an exit poll found.
New Orleans is headed in a different direction after landing the rights to take Kentucky freshman Anthony Davis with the No. 1 overall pick in the draft and deemed both Okafor and Ariza expendable.
But what was perhaps more impressive was the singularity with which she appreciates the role Clinton has carved out even as she has gone in a different direction: after she leaves the White House she will return to her personal life and career, eschewing politics.
Feeling the need to "go in a different direction" after restoring her home, a task that took almost a year, Ms. Ryan decided to forgo the musical arrangements crowded with instrumentalists that had marked her previous albums and chose instead to work with John McCusker, a producer known for creating stark and intimate-sounding albums for folk singers, to supervise the studio recording.
The children – the youngest aged five and the oldest 12 – were taken away in a different direction soon after the group was abducted while on a visit to Waza National Park, a popular tourist destination.
But Green Bay claimed they wanted to take the team in a different direction and, after a month of considerable acrimony and sniping between the two parties, Favre was traded to the New York Jets, 'the largest thing to hit the Big Apple since Godzilla' according to ESPN, leaving his successor Aaron Rodgers with a considerable pair of cleats to fill.
His group wants to sort out now how to fairly administer the early generation of coins and the like, but "if people want to go a different direction with it after it's out there, that's fine".
"It's a shame I couldn't have stuck around to help London to the next phase but they've gone in a different direction," he said after Salford's win at Batley denied London a place in the Million Pound Game on points difference.
My shopping took a completely different direction after just a day of looking around, and I found myself gravitating towards unaccustomed shapes and outlines.
