true course

American  

noun

Navigation.

1. a course whose bearing is given relative to the geographical meridian.

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Example Sentences

“Why don’t they investigate the true course of events?”

From Seattle Times

However, he hopes that even with a limited access to an online version of the Ukrainian curriculum, children from his region will still be able to learn the true course of events and have a clearer understanding of Ukraine's recent history.

From BBC

A booklet given to attendees for the “afternoon of remembrance and reflection” quoted from Mondale’s 2010 book, “The Good Fight”: “I believe that the values of the American people – our fundamental decency, our sense of justice and fairness, our love of freedom – are the country’s greatest assets, and that steering by their lodestar is the only true course forward.”

From Washington Times

“The true course of American politics and history,” Greenberg writes, “is apparent in how events happen as much as in what happened.”

From Washington Post

“I didn’t realize it clearly then, but my life was beginning to move onto its true course,” he observed in an essay.

From Washington Post