Sentence examples for applied firmly from inspiring English sources

It will ensure that remedies and penalties are applied firmly and consistently.

And the main bits of the reforms needed more liquidity and capital, less proprietary risk-taking and better incentives should be applied firmly and consistently to all lenders.

The comprehensive spending review that accompanied the PBR marked the definitive end of Labour's splurge on public spending of the past seven years, with the brakes being applied firmly in the face of stubbornly high budget deficits that have lasted since 2002/03.

An appropriate size cuff was chosen and applied firmly to the participants left arm.

Briefly, monofilaments were bounced to warm them up and applied firmly to six sites on each foot with a variable pause between tests to exclude false-positive responses.

This was applied firmly but without undue pressure for a period of 5 s, following which the tip was cleanly amputated using wire cutters and dropped into PreservCyt® solution (Cytyc Corporation, Boxborough, MA, USA).

With violent instability growing on its northern border and more than 95,000 Syrians already seeking refuge in the country, the brakes are likely to be applied more firmly than ever.

Ensure that there is sufficient glue applied to firmly stick the patch to the underside of the hole.

By the end, with lessons learned and firmly applied, the show only appeared dangerous.

BARACK OBAMA'S administration has promised to keep its boot firmly applied to BP's neck.

While Toyota executives did not accuse the man, James Sikes, of lying or staging the incident, they did say that their examination showed that the car would have stopped when the driver firmly applied the brakes.