"in a direction different from" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used whenever you want to describe something moving or being positioned in a different direction than something else. Example: The ball rolled in a direction different from the one it was kicked in, causing confusion for the players on the field.
Risk means the chance of being wrong — not always in an adverse direction, but always in a direction different from what we expected.
Tonight, several people familiar with the company's internal strategy said that Mr. Lane's role has decreased in the past year and that Mr. Ellison has increasingly guided the company in a direction different from the one advocated by Mr. Lane.
The work that earned her the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize takes film in a direction different from that of narrative or feature filmmaking, exploring concerns like light, and the passing relevance of celluloid in the digital era.
Only 9 of the 30 players finished under par, and with a 15-mile-an-hour wind blowing in a direction different from that of the practice rounds, players were often fooled and then penalized.
The fact that Google cannot exist in China clearly indicates that China's path as a rising power is going in a direction different from what the world expected and what many Chinese were hoping for".
Defenders say Mr. Kerry's background as a prosecutor and Vietnam veteran pushed him in a direction different from that of most other senators -- toward early investigations of the contras in Nicaragua, the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and the elections in the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos.
Mr. Wang, in adapting "Orphan" from his novel, wants to move in a direction wholly different from that of Chen Kaige, for whom he was an assistant.
The unremittingly potent "8 17 p.m., Darling Street," by Bernard Emond, is a tough, terse French-language film, set in Montreal, that's weighted in a direction completely different from that of Mr. Maddin's antic bloom.
This helped them deduce that one solitary elephant was a male moving in a direction totally different from the other elephant ancestors, including a group with several young individuals that left behind faint tracks.
Peel back each husk in turn, pulling it in a different direction from the others so that each husk comes down on a different side.
If the thrust is directed in horizontal direction or in a direction, which is different from the horizontal, it can be obtained: frac{W}{g}cdot frac{du}{dtau }=T cos t-D-{mu}_{brake}cdot left W-L+T sin tright), (58)where μ brake is the friction coefficient during braking phase.
