Peter Collins London It's not often that Anthony Trollope's wisdom seems inapplicable: "Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May".
The lessons of a sleepy Dutch spirits market were inapplicable in, say, the cut-throat world of frozen yogurt.
Your correspondent ventures that Britain, though politically distinctive, is not so different from these countries as to render such examples entirely inapplicable.
Even in situations such as Lebanon today, where most of the 1949 Conventions are technically inapplicable because Hizbullah is not a state, the Geneva language is seen as a guide to the spirit of customary humanitarian law.The trouble is that measuring civilian woes against military gain is a tall order, especially in a densely populated place like Lebanon.
Opposition to those established principles is often based on the erroneous view that water is different and that market forces are inapplicable when it comes to such a vital resource.The opposition's opening statement centred on the ideological presumption that market mechanisms are not appropriate for water pricing and asserted that a human right to water cannot be accommodated by market values.
The laboratory experiments of physics and chemistry, or even psychology, seem inapplicable to market behaviour.
Jennifer Jenkins, the director of Duke University's Centre for the Study of the Public Domain, says trademark protection would be inapplicable, in any case.
This view, though plausible in the case of certain folk lyrics, is inapplicable to the ballads, for if the ballads were simply miscellaneous castoffs, it would not be possible to discern so clearly in them a style that is unlike anything in sophisticated verse.
The Soviet model, which emphasized the conversion of capital gained from the sale of agricultural products into heavy machinery, was inapplicable in China because, unlike the Soviet Union, it had a very dense population and no large agricultural surplus with which to accumulate capital.
The dichotomy is also inapplicable to Rabbinic Judaism, which has neither priests nor monastics.
