"After consideration of the bill and having applied my mind thereto, I am of the view that the bill as it stands does not pass constitutional muster".
While writing a paper on the philosophy of law he made a detailed study of Winckelmann's History of Art, started to teach himself English and Italian, translated Tacitus's Germania and Aristotle's Rhetoric, read Francis Bacon and "spent a good deal of time on Reimarus, to whose book on the artistic instincts of animals I applied my mind with delight".
Now I wish to apply my mind to the issue of dignity for the dying".
However, it would be inappropriate for me to just release the report without applying my mind sufficiently.
I could have applied my steel trap of a mind to it, but I'm busy with… you know, important stuff.
In one showdown, Einstein ruthlessly mocks Stephen Hawking, the Oxford cosmologist whose long battle with Lou Gehrig's disease has left him in a wheelchair: "When I apply my battle theory, minds are relatively blown/So take a seat, Steve/Oop, I see you brought your own".
I am merely applying my logical and relatively unbiased mind to the things I'm being told.
To add to the stress of applying to art schools, there was a thought looming in the back of my mind: apply to his school, get into the decent art program, and begin my life with him.
All the while, I had files for each of the characters, and would then deposit all of the materials, songs, pieces of stories, accounts, lyrics, biblical quotations, as they applied to the characters, in my mind.
Diane Coyle, the acting chairman of the BBC Trust, told the Independent on Sunday that she had "not quite made up my mind" about applying, but had not ruled it out.
Conscious of the potential pitfalls and with the convoluted process of applying for university fresh in my mind, I was keen to make an early start in looking at possible options abroad.
