The performance of five of WA's major resources players provides a useful guide to the overall direction of the state economy. (businessnews.com.au)
The dictatorial source and direction of state power had many sources in both Germany and the Soviet Union, and some of those sources doubtless derive from imperialism. (firstthings.com)
[3] His speech offered less a summation of the potential strategic direction of the State Department under his tenure, than the plea of a Capitol Hill veteran, dismayed by Washington's budgetary partisanship and brinkmanship over the recent «fiscal cliff» and imminent government - wide sequester. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)