The phrase "a more directed manner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing approaches or methods that are focused or specific in nature.
Example: "To achieve better results, we need to approach the project in a more directed manner."
Alternatives: "a more focused approach" or "a more targeted way".
They're belaboring a point, trying to create this airtight argument, when if you just got to your point in a more direct manner it would be stronger.
And those Thais who want to engage the Myanmar regime in a more direct manner will have been strengthened in their convictions.
That current lower court case has raised, in a more direct manner, the question of whether the anti-gambling provision in the state Constitution forbids any commercial gambling in New York.
It is proposed that the shift in the definition of competence and in the categorisation of learning outcomes should be taken into account in the formulation of new European curricula or the updating of present ones so that they may reference in a more direct manner to the levels of the European Qualifications Framework.
The discrete-to-binary mapping can be defined in a more direct manner compared to the previous mapping.
But, what also seems to have changed since 2005 is that the idea of granting "an earned path to citizenship" to those without papers is being challenged in a more direct manner than in any other previous iteration of this debate.
One high scaler was able to save life in a more direct manner: when a government inspector lost his grip on a safety line and began tumbling down a slope towards almost certain death, a high scaler was able to intercept him and pull him into the air.
Thus, our study is aimed at dealing in a more direct manner with individuation sensitivity than previous studies using whole face images.
In contrast to this, P deficiency influenced C and energy metabolism in a more direct manner.
We set out to test the reactivity of the catalytic Cys residue of Parkin in a more direct manner.
