"guidepost" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that helps guide a person or group to a desired result, such as a moral guidepost, or a literal guidepost that shows directions. For example: "The Bible was a moral guidepost for her throughout her life."
School districts in other states have brought similar lawsuits summoning constitutional language to demand increased funding and awaited the Kansas ruling as a legal guidepost.
Ben Bernanke, the chairman, said the new statement was just a "guidepost" to help investors adjust their expectations as to when the Fed would tighten.In this section RIPPP Big is not always beautiful Too big to jail The other mandate To each, not according to his needs National trust Skimming the froth The scam busters ReprintsBut it is actually much more than that.
Congress is supposed to use the president's budget as a guidepost to its own budget-writing.
In 1882 Yamagata induced the emperor to promulgate the "Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors"—in essence a recapitulation of Yamagata's "Admonition to the Military"—which was to become the spiritual guidepost of the imperial army until Japan's surrender at the end of World War II.
Some federal courts have used the Ninth Amendment as a guidepost in their decisions, but it still has not been central to any decision.
This article begins with a brief guidepost to the major branches of geometry and then proceeds to an extensive historical treatment.
Robert knew the height of the Bank of China building, so he looked to it as a guidepost.
It's not a bad way to look at the seemingly limitless problems that are bound to face the next President, and it's a useful guidepost for Hillary Clinton, the increasingly presumptive nominee, as she tries to disentangle herself from the knots of her own foreign-policy positions.
QUESTION FROM DUNCAN: Is there a Middle Eastern country that could emerge as a kind of guidepost for citizen-involvement and a movement toward democratic institutions?
But "Cloud Atlas," in all its glorious confusion, also serves as a guidepost to the future of the film business.
But for the short term, those virtues are often being overlooked by investors, so as a guidepost for Wall Street he has been looking at an unlikely benchmark, the Greek 10-year note.
