Sentence examples for changed in the direction from inspiring English sources
The shape of congressional districts changed and changed in the direction of the Republicans.
Although the welfare program per se has not changed much since 2007, a number of safety-net programs have changed, and changed in the direction of significantly reducing the reward for working among unmarried women who are heads of households.
The air damper and combustion nozzle settings are changed in the direction of local gradient until a second order model that contains the optimal point in its experimental region is obtained.
As hypothesized, values changed in the direction of those displayed by the film's protagonist: Universalism values increased significantly and conformity values decreased significantly as compared to the control group.
(This may have been because elderly people were working more hours per week, took on jobs with greater responsibility or because the composition of the elderly work force changed in the direction of greater skill. See this paper for a technical analysis of these forces).
When the analysis was re-run using just those who thought the legal system was inadequate to protect public welfare, the relative rankings changed in the direction predicted.
