Sentence examples for direction of doing something from inspiring English sources

Back in 2004, Greg Mankiw declared, in the Economic Report of the President, that But now, after the Fed has finally moved a bit in the direction of doing something about the Lesser Depression, Mitt Romney – supposedly advised by Mankiw among others – is outraged: [T]he American economy doesn't need more artificial and ineffective measures.

It is a consensus built, repeatable way of doing something.

"a standard is an agreed, repeatable way of doing something.

This cooperation divergence may be explained by a behavioral asymmetry between the warm-glow of doing something good and the cold-prickle of doing something bad (Andreoni, 1995).

It has the promise of doing something today, which will support tomorrow's generation.

You see it and sort of do something about it.

If you ever went against that inner advice, and it blew up on you, did you ever tell yourself something along the lines of: "I knew it!" Even more aggravating can be the experience of having some kind of insight or sense of inner direction before doing something, ignoring the inner awareness, and then regretting that you didn't follow that inner voice.

This resistance can take the form of active resistance, including complaints to department heads or vocal refusal to participate, as well as more passive forms of resistance, such as just not following instructor directions and doing something else.

However, from engineering point of view, doing something better is the major concern.

Two albums in, and One Direction has barely shown a flicker of interest in doing something beyond riding this particular merry-go-round.

Are you paying attention for signs to change direction or do something different in your work?