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DIRECTION. The order and government of an institution; the persons who compose the board of directors are jointly called the direction. Direction, in another sense, is nearly synonymous with instruction. (q.v.)

DIRECTION, practice. That part of a bill in chancery which contains the address of the bill to the court; this must of course, contain the appropriate and technical description of the court.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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The names of areas, roads, streets, symbols and some colours are used on directional signs on main roads and expressways in the country to categorise and identify these roads, making it easy to describe how to reach the destination using only the code of the road and the number of exit.

Ashghal to standardise road signs across Qatar

The vibration response of the shaft and the pedestal when the system operated at a rotational speed of 5500 rpm and 6200 rpm was investigated using directional cyclostationarity, directional time frequency distribution, and conventional cyclostationarity, respectively.

Vibration signal analysis of journal bearing supported rotor system by cyclostationarity

The directional selectivity in this antenna may be achieved with the help of a multiband feed network behind the antenna array as shown in Figure 2.

Directional antennas for cognitive radio: analysis and design recommendations

"Man Directional Series 2 Ltd is actively managed by a highly experienced investment team to ensure that the portfolio is well positioned to adapt to, and take advantage of, prevailing market conditions.

Man Investments unveils new global product

Directional and horizontal wells in the Bahrain field targeted many geological formations of different thicknesses in shallow and medium deep targets such as Ahmedi, Bahrain, Wara and Arab formation.

Bapco completes 30 non-vertical oil wells

The lack of significant differences in subjective data, however, indicates that either our measures do not directly address situations where directional microphones are advantageous or our investigators failed to effectively instruct patients in the proper use of directional hearing aids.

Real-world benefit from directional microphone hearing aids

The most common directional preference is extension, followed by lateral, and flexion.

Directional exercise helps to relieve low back pain

Far and away the most common directional preference is extension, followed by lateral, with a preference for flexion bringing up the rear.

Directional exercise helps relieve low back pain: direction of exercise determines outcome

From Gosforth: Follow yellow directional signs on the B1318 to your designated entrance.

Rules in place for traffic at Festival

When calculating the induced nystagmus, there was no significant reduced vestibular response, but there was a48% directional preponderance.

Importance of taking into account pre-existing nystagmus when calculating induced nystagmus. (Vestibulology Clinic)

EHS can be programmed to do a number of things, including changing responsiveness with speed and steering angle (think parallel parking versus highway driving), and responding to external Forces in such a way that vehicle directional stability is enhanced.

Steering toward greater stability. (WIP)

And in many instances, horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is the trenchless method of choice.