Sentence examples for just a direction from inspiring English sources

It was just a direction of travel.

It all began in 1852 with the Far East (capitalized because it was not just a direction but the proper noun for a region), defined by the O.E.D. as "the extreme eastern regions of the Old World".

Notice that CVA gives just a direction of the change, meaning there's no classification of the actual cover types present on the Earth surface.

I asked, "Bari?" (which I later found out was just a direction), and he told me his cousin or uncle or something was in Dizzee's crew.

"Just pick a direction!" urged my exasperated traveling companion as we hit what seemed to be our 40th unlabeled roundabout.

If you cannot stay where you are until someone finds you, do not just pick a direction and start walking, even if you have a means of ensuring that you continue to go that direction.

In the case that only one eigenvalue of the real part Φ ′ r,ω) is nonzero, the electric-field vector fluctuates in just a single direction and the light is considered one dimensional.

In a particular coordinate system, the electric component of random light may fluctuate in three orthogonal spatial directions, but by rotating the reference frame it may turn out that the field vector actually is restricted to a plane, or even that it fluctuates in just a single direction.

With repeated training from just a single direction, birds have the opportunity to learn that their goal can always be reached by attending to compass information alone.

So, if return home from a particular direction always occurred at roughly the same time in the evening, say, then the sun might be used to provide just a single direction, limiting its effectiveness to that particular time of day.

Note that it doesn't just say north – a direction – but The North, a place.