The phrase "under direction from" is correct and usable in written English, and can be used to describe someone who is directed or instructed by another person or group.
For example: "The project was completed successfully under direction from the company manager."
While publishing more contracts and detailed expenditure is progressive, benchmarking reports can only be published under direction from the mayor.
The OAS – under direction from Washington – then changed the results to eliminate the government's candidate from the second round.
The British plot was thwarted in October 2014 and involved Tarik Hassane and at least one other young man from west London, under direction from overseas.
What's different is that under direction from Governor Whitman, state agencies have begun to use the plan to guide their regulations and spending.
At present the foreign minister can cancel passports – and has pulled about 12 – but only at the request of police under direction from state governments.
That spring, Flint, under direction from state officials, turned off the drinking water it had relied upon for nearly 50 years.
Brad Ausmus, the Astros' catcher, then stood up, under directions from the dugout, and held out his glove hand.
"I thought that the [North's] current regime should be brought down and acted … under directions from the [South's] national intelligence service," Kim said.
Under directions from the Obama administration, NASA is aiming to send people to the vicinity of Mars in the 2030s, with a landing on the Red Planet to follow.
Mr. Schiller said he would work closely with the Republican National Committee's Committee on Arrangements, the arm of the party that puts on the convention and carries out planning for the program inside the hall, under close direction from the White House.
When, under silent direction from the accompanying, officiating presences, this stranger removes himself, Owen's wife's body, also naked, is revealed, supine: the white relaxed belly, the breasts flattened by gravity, her dear known sex in its gauzy beard of fur.
