When carefully applied and diligently enforced, they can work.
Ivanka reportedly applied herself diligently to the process, winning Charlie and Seryl over with her devotion.
Her daughter now came to the office every day; during our conversation, she applied herself diligently to a Kit-Kat and then, replete, stretched out on her mother's lap for a nap.
Scarpa applied his diligently acquired knowledge of the glassmaking process and its heritage to create a remarkable variety of new styles of glassware, ranging from heavy sommersi, to refined lattimi, some of which will be in the Venice exhibition.
At a time when government itself had fallen into disrepute Mr. Kennedy applied himself diligently to its exacting discipline, and wrested whatever small victories he could from the machinery he had learned to operate so well.
AS summer begins, Americans are buying up sunscreen, confident that applying it diligently will protect them from the rays that can lead to skin cancer, sunburn and wrinkles.
For my part, I came to realize that whereas I had been advising my gay client to apply himself diligently to seek help from God and do the inner spiritual work to overcome his dysfunction, it was I who needed to heed my own advice.
That analysis concluded that existing technologies, diligently applied, would solve much of the problem.
The wood on the cabinets, doors, desks, shelves and sofas, all designed by Wright, sparkled, having been brought back to life by coats of lemon oil Mr. Sells diligently applied early this week as a new real-estate listing went live.
