The phrase "authority in the direction of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the power or influence someone has over a particular course of action or decision-making process.
Example: "The committee has the authority in the direction of policy changes within the organization."
Alternatives: "power regarding" or "influence over".
"When Japanese authorities look in the direction of Singapore and Mexico, I want them to find Canada on their radar screen," said Pierre S. Pettigrew, Canada's minister of international trade, during a visit here last month.
5) There is an important interaction effect: the deep social and economic crisis that most of these countries inherited from their authoritarian predecessors reinforces certain practices and conceptions about the proper exercise of political authority that lead in the direction of delegative, not representative democracy.
Known for her no-nonsense courtroom manner, Judge Johnson — the first African-American woman appointed to the federal bench in Washington — held ultimate authority over the direction of the 1998 investigation, led by the independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, into President Clinton's relationship with Ms. Lewinsky, a White House intern.
This would give state governments significant authority over the direction of health care in their states.
If disadvantage were defined as above, admissions authorities might be led in the direction of ability banding, favoured in the code, and powerfully advocated in a recent report from the Institute of Public Policy Research IPPRR).
In these situations, the actions of an authority or a coworker push in the direction of accepting and enjoying the unfair outcome, whereas personal values for most people push in the direction of rejecting or being displeased with the outcome.
Thus we bias the bi-directional BLAST hits procedure in the direction of the authority.
Congress needs to roll back the erosion of its authority, first and foremost by revisiting the National Emergencies Act and amending it to rebalance away from executive flexibility in the direction of legislative authority.
Authorities and witnesses said Jelovcic drove north in the direction of the couple's home in a gated community called Real del Mar.
Before authorities stopped him, Valenzuela had been walking "in the direction of his aunt's home, the guardian who raised him," Mardirossian said. .
