"apply" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Doctrines of submission to God's delegated authorities in order to provide "covering" and complete spiritual protection were regularly promoted and were narrowly applied to wives obeying husbands, children obeying parents, and disciples obeying leaders.
- The provisions disappointed free-trade advocates who had hoped that screening requirements would be applied narrowly, given past complaints by the United States about similar ones in Canada, Japan and numerous other foreign countries.
- The Supreme Court found that the regulations, as narrowly applied to the case at hand (distribution of a documentary it had produced with the electioneering window) would nonetheless have a chilling effect on political speech.
- With the rise of engineering as a profession in the 18th century, the term became more narrowly applied to fields in which mathematics and science were applied to these ends.
- Democrats complained that the extended benefits fund had grown to nearly $8 billion but the program was too narrowly applied.
- This provision, which Mr. Hyde supports, would be narrowly applied.
- In these cases, you were asking the king for a specific, particularized kind of help (a divorce, apportionment of an estate, etc.), and the king's ruling was more narrowly applied to you.
- The federal government had entered the case on Ms. Smith's behalf to argue to the justices that the probate exception should be applied narrowly, if at all.
- North American Contradance is derived from the English form country dance, though in American usage the term appears to be narrowly applied to the longways set.
- If these would be narrowly applied, a bunch of guys would be thrown out, including Ty Cobb, whose career hits record Rose broke, who is said to have sharpened his spikes in order to cut down infielders when he slid into bases.
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