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The phrase "alter the direction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to suggest making a change in the direction one is currently going, especially when talking about a course of action or intent. For example, "The team decided to alter the direction of their marketing strategy to better target the desired demographic."
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McLane told Clemens last winter to come home and help alter the direction of the franchise.
Even so, his trifecta did little to alter the direction of the race.
With the search for a performance director already ongoing, there is suitable scope to properly alter the direction of travel.
In just the same way, the attacks on New York and Washington, however shocking, did not alter the direction of several underlying historical trends.
The Jamal trio's use of improvised cues to alter the direction of the music and its creative use of space and dynamics made it an influential group.
In order to alter the direction of America, they had to "influence the areas where policy ideas percolate from: academia and think tanks".
Now the Sixers face losing the league's most valuable player for at least one game, which could further alter the direction of the series.
Alton chose to alter the direction of a paper that Kelner has restyled as a "Viewspaper" but which many believed had grown tired.
But it also shows that to fundamentally alter the direction of a campaign, a candidate usually has to accomplish all of those things.
All three, Mr. English writes, "became enmeshed in a similar matrix of forces — political, social and racial — that would alter the direction of the city".
It added that there were no forecasts of a wind change that would alter the direction of the cloud, which is about 1,250 miles long and 800 miles wide.
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