Sentence examples for was in the direction of from inspiring English sources

He departed only once for more than a word or two from the prepared text, and it was in the direction of defiant swagger: changing "And we will not allow it" to "And you know what?

Asked why he had run toward a particular part of the ground after taking each wicket, he explained that it was in the direction of his hometown of Mutare.

He gambled, all right, but it was in the direction of orthodoxy — for Palin is a creature and an icon of the Republicans' evangelical base, which came into full possession of the Party this week and completed the G.O.P.'s conversion to identity politics.

"If there was a tactical error we made, it was in the direction of going more toward the 'wow,' " said Turner Simkins, the general manager of the project, as we stood atop a condominium building and surveyed a street of generously proportioned homes with columned two-story porches.

Dominance was in the direction of susceptibility.

For the local anisotropy coal seam, rhombus long diagonal was in the direction of face cleats and short diagonal was in the direction of butt cleats.

"My concerts are in the direction of tradition," said Richard Cantatore, a vocal music teacher in Edgemont.

'All the movement has been in the direction of dumbing down.

The route is in the direction of the "land of Canaan," the goal of the journey.

Anyway, after 1983 all my thoughts were in the direction of getting back to Bezalel.

The direction of the net force will be in the direction of whichever team is pulling harder.