Sentence examples for Applies existing from inspiring English sources

If a decision merely applies existing precedent, it is retroactive.

Like other English judges, he does not create new law, but interprets and applies existing law.

The Teague decision said that a ruling is retroactive if it applies existing precedent, but not if it announces a new legal principle.

Section 2 applies existing concepts of natural processes, natural hazards, and natural disasters to the systemic framework.

Lopez suggests that if AOL applies existing products like its Internet-based parental controls to the phone service, they may be able to attract consumers who would otherwise remain faithful to their traditional phone lines.

In a project being undertaken in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, researchers from Duke University are developing the Malaria Decision Analysis Support Tool (MDAST), which applies existing knowledge and evidence about specific malaria interventions to help officials predict the probable outcomes of different combinations of malaria control strategies and weigh the risks and benefits.

Dr Abdullah Saleh Mubarak Al Khulaifi, the labour minister, insisted it was determined to apply existing labour laws.

After all, most doping involves little more than applying existing therapies to healthy bodies.

What has been less clear is whether courts can apply existing law and legal precedent to cover these violations.

One method involves learning a hierarchy and then applying existing hierarchical techniques to it.

Applying existing technologies to farms in poor countries will do some good, as it has done in the Brazilian Amazon.