The phrase "applied a standard" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the implementation or enforcement of a specific criterion or benchmark in a particular context.
Example: "The committee applied a standard to evaluate the quality of the submissions received for the competition."
Alternatives: "implemented a criterion" or "enforced a benchmark."
"If the tribunal misunderstands the code, or misapplies it, they've applied a standard which is not the standard of conduct applicable to the conduct of the practitioner.
In addition to processing the VMC dataset with VirMAP, we applied a standard taxonomic classification method (see "methods" section) for comparative purposes.
Judge Gorsuch said he had merely applied a standard set out in a Supreme Court decision as interpreted by an earlier decision of his court, the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver.
Without even a glance at § 1031(a)'s history, the Court today reverses, reasoning that the District Court improperly "applied a standard of review far stricter than that approved in Sugarman and later cases". Ante at 442.
To test this idea, we characterized area summation and contrast response properties in V1 with and without feedback from V2 and V3 in alert macaques and applied a standard normalization model to the data.
7. When Georgia banned executions of the "mentally retarded", it applied a standard to such cases that meant that death row prisoners had to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that they had learning difficulties.
Ecosystem orchestrators don't apply a standard approach to partner selection and management.
The corresponding time domain results are calculated by applying a standard inverse fast Fourier transformation technique.
The reason the government is so enthusiastic about the concept is it promises to streamline the sometimes arduous planning process by applying a standard market value to biodiversity.
Therefore, the angular integral can be computed by summing a series instead of applying a standard numerical integration algorithm.
Applying a standard vote-counting rule to the data, we determine a complete ranking of the action items.
