Sentence examples for applied something from inspiring English sources

The justice minister, Piet Hein Donner, who is a Calvinist of the old school, suggested that a rather archaic law against blasphemy should be applied, something that had not been done since 1966, when the novelist Gerard van het Reve was prosecuted for comparing his conversion to the Catholic faith to making tender love to a donkey.

As for her having failed to detect the violent surge running at a forty-five-degree angle to the shoreline, an aphorism must have applied – something about never being aware of forces that are on your side until you defy them.

As for her having failed to detect the violent surge running at a forty-five-degree angle to the shoreline, an aphorism must have applied — something about never being aware of forces that are on your side until you defy them.

The roots of the dispute go back to the Cable Consumer Protection & Competition Act of 1992, which applied something called "retransmission consent" to the cable industry.

"I slowly recognized that it was not just the plants I wanted to study, but the context in which plants grow--the ecosystem as a whole," says Hoft, "I knew that I wanted to do something applied, something that could have real bearing on day-to-day decisions in conservation management".

One Freedom to Travel member, who also happens to be a tenured mathematics professor, applied something called Bayes Rule and the concept of Base Rate Fallacy to the TSA's behavior-detection methods.

The Royal Mail has to apply something known as "headroom" in fixing its price for this service.

Boots and Specsavers, two high-street stores, apply something like the franchise model to the distribution of spectacles.

"He was always trying to make sure that wherever possible we would apply something which is more ecological in the technology".

Michael Worton, vice-provost at UCL, says that by 2014, all undergraduates in every discipline will need a modern language at GCSE level to apply, something Cambridge already stipulates.

While there's not much additional benefit in Sun Protection Factor over 50, you should be liberally (and frequently) applying something that's at least SPF 30.