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The phrase "as it was directed" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to following instructions or guidance that has been given. Example: "Please complete the task as it was directed in the meeting yesterday."
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"As long as it was directed at me, they were fine with it.
Iraq's most powerful Shiite militant cleric repudiated the new Baghdad security plan, saying it would fail as long as it was directed by the American military.
At a press conference today, Cowell acknowledged the Facebook campaign to get Rage Against the Machine's 1992 song, Killing in the Name, to Christmas No 1, saying it was "dismissive" of the public as it was directed at him.
Mr. Barmak is unsparing in his anatomy of the Taliban's cruelty, especially as it was directed against women, but there is very little feeling of vengefulness or hatred in the film, which makes it all the more devastating in the end.
Kan's remarks differed slightly from the groundbreaking 1995 statement by Murayama – repeated by Koizumi a decade later – as it was directed exclusively at South Korea and recognised for the first time that the peninsula was annexed "against the will of the Korean people".
As long as it was directed at me, they were fine with it," Obama said at a Democratic fundraiser in Austin.
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Apparently, lavish government spending is acceptable as long as it's directed thirty-five million miles from Earth.
Joking apart, is ageism acceptable so long as it is directed at TV talent show panellists?
Carter's script is clever and Jay Miller's production is as much choreographed as it is directed.
It pains me to think that a religious authority could view terrorism as legitimate so long as it's directed against Israeli civilians.
But the 'transcensus' also possesses a logical-semantical aspect, insofar as it is directed to the communissima, and an epistemological aspect, insofar as it is directed to the prima, the first conceptions of the intellect.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com