The phrase "a direction that has" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific instruction or guideline that possesses certain characteristics or qualities.
Example: "We need to follow a direction that has been clearly outlined in the project documentation."
Alternatives: "a guideline that possesses" or "an instruction that includes".
But then the high school textbook takes a direction that has angered conservatives.
Thus far, the data have not moved in a direction that has the Fed itching to raise interest rates sooner.
Among other things, with our festival dispatches, we are trying to point the conversation about the movies in a direction that has nothing to do with their box office or Oscar fortunes.
"A few skilled – and almost universally posh – politicians managed to connect and lead this anti-establishment tsunami into a direction that has no hope of solving the problems they daily experience," said one man from Brighton.
This is amateur literary history, but it seems evident that in the past 35 years these several elements -- the spreading of the confessional culture, the vanishing of virtually all taboos, and the diminishment, in popular perception, of the divide between the creator and his or her creation -- have led literature in a direction that has rarely been traveled in the past.
It's a direction that has rankled certain fashion observers.
"He felt Daniel was working in a direction that hadn't been explored by someone else," Mr. Carlson said.
You can't write "be sympathetic" in a screen direction – that has to come naturally to an actor, and Radcliffe has this in spades.
Scalia's influence has also been felt in jurisprudence involving matters of religion, where he has pushed the Court in a novel direction that has angered many Americans, both religious and nonreligious.
Sometimes we're called in a new direction that has nothing to do with where we'll end up.
