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'