"Suggest a direction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that you are offering guidance on what could be the next step to take. For example: "We need to come up with a plan of action. Can someone suggest a direction?".
The Social Value Act, Merlin standards for sub-contractors and new Cabinet Office guidance on transparency suggest a direction of travel for further regulation.
We also suggest a direction for investigating practical solutions able to offer stronger security without requiring any overhaul of existing protocols.
The key enzymes characterized will suggest a direction for the design of genetically modified lactic acid bacteria to produce optically pure d-lactic acid.
In the "black" subgroup, for example, there were only 13 infections: four among those who had received the vaccine and nine among a control group given a placebo.At best, those results might suggest a direction for a future trial.
Given the patchwork of systems now used to watch shows at home — from driving to a store to rent a video, to mailing DVDs back and forth, to video-on-demand and Internet downloads — Comcast seems to be trying to impose some order and suggest a direction for the future.
Mr. Margiela in his first collection for Hermes and Mr. Jacobs in his debut for Louis Vuitton did their jobs, for in truth, the role of consulting designer is to suggest a direction for a collection, imbuing it with the prevailing definition of chic or cool.
And it's very encouraging in that sense because it suggests a direction in which the theater might go.
This paper thus delineates a general framework to account for ITV and suggests a direction towards a more quantitative trait-based ecology.
This counter-intuitive property of negative spin torque generation suggests a direction of spin rotation in opposite handedness of the angular momentum carried by the incident beam.
Klar suggests a direction for further exploration: "It should be equally interesting to compare the proportions of clockwise and counterclockwise hair-whorl orientations in lesbian women with those in females at large". The report ends with a simple notice that deftly fends off the research-is-a-waste-of-government-money crowd: "Author's personal funds were used for the study".
It also suggests a direction to be followed, which brings out the ethical interest of the Laozi.
