The phrase 'decide the direction' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate the need for someone to make a choice about a specific course of action. For example: "If you want to move forward with this project, you'll have to decide the direction of its development."
"Just as before, it will be up to the council to decide the direction and timing of the process".
Presidential debates should be an opportunity for the American people to decide the direction of our nation.
"As a partner, we will not only use the facility, but decide the direction of the science".
"Let the people decide the direction of the country and who the governing majority will be," she said in a televised address on December 8th.
Military officials said that the military had not seen any stiff resistance and that the next 24 hours could decide the direction of their operation.
The ruling party accuses the CUF of harbouring plans to dissolve the union with Tanzania and reinstate the Arab sultanate that was toppled in the 1964 revolution.The fight may decide the direction of Zanzibar's economy.
"The OECD's data, including those from PISA, is used by policy-makers to decide the directions in their own education systems based on what seems to have worked in other countries.
"They will continue to explore all possibilities before deciding the direction the franchise will take," the statement said.
This referendum dwarfs the significance of a single general election, which only decides the direction of the nation for five years.
But lectures on hydrodynamics in 1897 by Vilhelm Bjerknes, one of the founders of meteorology and oceanography, definitely decided the direction of Ekman's work.
In Beijing, Liu began to advise the State Council, China's top administrative body, which drafts legislation and generally decides the direction of national policy.
