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The phrase "affect the direction" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how something influences or changes the course or path of an action, decision, or movement.
Example: "The new policy changes will significantly affect the direction of our company's growth strategy."
Alternatives: "influence the course" or "change the path".
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But there is a new factor that could affect the direction of the case.
And this could affect the direction of the organization and how it operates," Hassan told me.
Neither party could predict how the outcome would affect the direction of the Republican Party.
In particular, this is likely to affect the direction of economic policy.
This is bigger than Egypt: What happens here will affect the direction of Islamist groups everywhere.
He has been given an enormous opportunity to affect the direction of music in America and enhance his personal legacy.
The change "did not on the whole, affect the direction of the change," the commission said, "but only its magnitude".
And how it plays out could affect the direction of the state party, not just in November, but in future elections, too.
Because of this, he says it is vital that the personal interests and needs of partners do not affect the direction of the company, or deflect from its aims and objectivity.
Earlier, he had explained his decision in pragmatic terms: "If you got into public life to affect policy, and to affect the direction of the country, where could you do that on the most immediate basis?
Before we launched SalesGossip we set about testing our initial concept on a group of target customers, knowing that what they said would ultimately affect the direction our business was to take.
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