"charts the path" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are discussing a course of action, or a plan to achieve a goal. For example: "The teacher charts the path for her students, helping them to reach their goals through hard work."
The most heavenly looking element is the face, a rotating black sphere that charts the paths of the stars, one of the oldest forms of telling time.
I trust local folks to chart the path to excellence.
The commission will deliver a high-level economic analysis charting the path to a high-pay, high-productivity economy".
Investors, meanwhile, charted the path of Hurricane Gustav as it headed toward the Gulf of Mexico and oil rigs and refineries in the area.
In the tradition of great lawyers, Steve delighted in shouldering great responsibility, in making the crucial decisions and in charting the path to a successful outcome.
The scars on her face and abdomen chart the path of the sun from its noon zenith, to its nightly descent, still shining, into the realm of the dead, to its next rising.
Liam O Murchu, a security researcher at the firm, said his team was able to chart the path of the infection because of an unusual feature of the malware: Stuxnet recorded information on the location and type of each computer it infected.
It is a challenge the mayor has handled sometimes clumsily and sometimes with great sensitivity and eloquence, as he charted the path away from the concrete events of 2001.
By the selection and interpretation of his sources, he charted the path by which the church would understand both its own uniqueness in the world and also its continuing relationship to Judaism and to the world.
Mike F. Foster Lakewood, Colo., Nov. 9, 2008 To the Editor: Al Gore's call to action for young Americans to help chart the path to energy independence underscores the increasingly vital role of math and science education in the United States.
