Sentence examples for applies are from inspiring English sources

The work of an agency like St Margaret's lies in assessing those would-be parents; and the criteria it applies are now the subject of an escalating battle.

– Tom Murdoch Accountability: "Government does recognise the need for arm's length bodies – even if through gritted teeth – and the three tests it applies are the need for impartiality, independence or performing a "technical function".

But this is rare instance where taking all the polls at face value may be a mistake, and the additional checks-and-balances the FiveThirtyEight method applies are worth the trouble.

But such statistics are unlikely to be reliable, since the colleges to which a student applies are not necessarily the same as the colleges that have accepted the student.

The factual issues to which § 2254 d) applies are "basic, primary, or historical facts: facts 'in the sense of a recital of external events and the credibility of their narrators..

Although I hope that this chart serves as a useful reference point — and as a reminder that other data-driven sites that look at the polls with the same philosophy that FiveThirtyEight applies are achieving largely the same results — I'm more interested in looking at this data in a macroscopic way.

Determining how legal protection applies is tricky.

Not everyone who applies is accepted.

Most who apply are accepted.

Those applying are a mixed bunch.

Most of those who apply are interviewed.