The phrase "advance in the direction of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing movement or progress towards a specific goal or location.
Example: "The team decided to advance in the direction of the new market to explore potential opportunities."
Alternatives: "move towards" or "proceed in the direction of".
The Germans would instead continue to advance in the direction of the least enemy resistance.
The cross or vector product of two vectors a and b, written a × b, is the vector where n is a vector of unit length perpendicular to the plane of a and b and so directed that a right-handed screw rotated from a toward b will advance in the direction of n (see Figure 2).
We hope that the papers in this special issue help to advance in the direction of getting an answer to these questions.
All Saladin's best efforts could not dislocate the Crusader column, or halt its advance in the direction of Arsuf.
Our souls are calling out that correction must be made in order to advance in the direction of our truest nature.
What I do know is that just as a diamond needs all its facets shining for the gem to have greatest value, our world needs your participation in it, putting your best self forward, if we are all to advance in the direction of our dream to create a better place for our children and our children's children.
The corvette Zouave shelled the enemy advancing in the direction of Charkeui.
Recent research in federated database systems has advanced in the direction of federations of multimedia databases.
As the spreading lava advanced in the direction of the town pumps obtained from the mainland drew water from the sea in an effort to save houses.
Nishitani did recognized certain advances in the direction of a truly "radical subjectivity" in modern ideas such as that of individual "autonomy".
4 So they decided to fight it out, and summoning forces from every quarter and heavily outnumbering the Macedonians, they advanced in the direction of Hellespontine Phrygia.
