His carefully directed plans to seek out and capture the Starfleet spies had disintegrated around him at the final moment, and now there was nothing.

In this case, it was a carefully directed reconnaissance plane.

Cal had carefully directed them away from the direction Circe indicated for the oncoming tsunami, so that the island stood between them and it.

Such tapped magic was often too unstable or volatile to use in such a carefully directed fashion.

Some of the poses seem casual; others, carefully directed.

But, Mr. Bush added, "the increases must be carefully directed and effectively spent."

Even grunts and groans are carefully directed.

He warned that antiterrorist efforts should be carefully directed and limited in scope.

Then, when the challenge did come, he could face it with all of his consciousness carefully directed and focused.

It isn't a balanced, carefully directed approach to copyright enforcement.