It will be impossible to tell the government's true direction until ministers have spelled out their planning statements for each specific sector.

BBC: The La Rance tidal barrage near St Malo in Brittany

As long as the Western powers persist in willfully deluding themselves about the true nature and direction of Russia, they will not only persist in squandering large amounts of taxpayer funds on Moscow and continue to ignore the fact that the undisciplined transfers of billions in financial aid to that country, particularly since the early 1990s, has contributed to its present crisis.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Many times, if nothing else, just a change in name, and not direction, and not true movement.

NPR: Roundtable: Rice, Rumsfeld in Iraq, 'United 93'

In a way, it's a really a better example, I think, of how a lack of direction and a lack of true mission, a sort of let's each of the individual agencies decide for themselves what their priorities are going to be.

NPR: Intelligence Failures In 'Top Secret America'

The government, it is true, is making some nods in that direction.

ECONOMIST: Welfare reform

And the only direction they will have to go, the only true expense they can control, will be to reduce their labor costs.

WSJ: Minimum wage game changed when NY lawmakers return

In a fabulous lecture discussing true motivators of human behavior (in a nutshell: self-direction and to master good ideas and worthwhile skills) writer Daniel Pink describes Atlassian Software.

FORBES: Can Digital Workplace Democracy Make Workers Happy?

The explosion in collaborative consumption is indeed transformative, but Y Combinator-backed Balanced is a step in the wrong direction precisely because it extends and supports the legacy infrastructure rather than offering a true peer-to-peer payment solution.

FORBES: Payments Startup Balanced Innovates In Wrong Direction