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The phrase "affecting the direction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing influences or changes that impact the course or path of something, whether literal or metaphorical.
Example: "The new policy is affecting the direction of our company's growth strategy."
Alternatives: "influencing the course" or "shaping the path".
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Quarterly results continued to trickle out, with results from bellwether stocks affecting the direction of some of the main indexes.
They are also affecting the direction of the investigation, pointing to a strike that, one official said, could not have been carried out by known Yemeni terrorist cells without significant support from outside.
Both of the brothers saw Ralph as their "lodestar", but if he shaped them intellectually it seems to have been more by communicating a powerful sense of the importance of politics than by affecting the direction of their political thinking.
Issues affecting the direction of such museums also lie beneath the surface of a new book, "Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums Oxford University Pressss) by Stephen T. Asma, a philosopher at Columbia College in Chicago.
His big argument was protection of the NHS and a campaign against the closure of a local A&E unit, but the minds of voters appeared firmly still fixed on the EU referendum, the dominant issue in politics affecting the direction of the country for decades to come.
The latter affects the speed of the trajectories in the phase plane (i.e., the speed of the system's response) without affecting the direction of the underlying vector field.
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And this could affect the direction of the organization and how it operates," Hassan told me.
But there is a new factor that could affect the direction of the case.
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.
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