The phrase "affecting their direction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain factors or influences change the course or path of something or someone.
Example: "The unexpected weather changes are affecting their direction, making it difficult for the team to reach their destination on time."
Alternatives: "influencing their path" or "shaping their course".
Therefore, Zn 2+ ions could accelerate the reactions but not affect their direction.
The paper provides a comprehensive understanding of available technologies for energy metering and environmental monitoring; their drivers, advantages and limitations; factors affecting their selection and future directions of research and development – for use a reference, as well as for generating further interest in this expanding research area.
It is premised on a 'bottom-up' approach, which means enhancing the capacity of communities to determine goals and to pursue issues of importance to them, and to make decisions affecting their lives, for example, the direction of services and the allocation of funds (Centre for Effective Services 2009).
It is premised on a 'bottom-up' approach, which means enhancing the capacity of communities to determine goals and to pursue issues of importance to them, and to make decisions affecting their lives, for example, the direction of services and the allocation of funds.
On the contrary, the movements' velocities were not significantly affected by their directions.
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.
The mere memories of bad-hair days or the times a good-looking date smiled in their direction affected the way the participants viewed inequality.
This analysis examined genes in the selected modules that are known to affect biological functions and compared their direction of change (i.e. expression in cluster E samples relative to cluster I) to that expected from the literature.
Quarterly results continued to trickle out, with results from bellwether stocks affecting the direction of some of the main indexes.
Sensitivity analyses identified factors related to nurse hours as affecting the direction and magnitude of the results.
