The phrase "apply a principle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the implementation or use of a specific principle in a particular context or situation.
Example: "In order to solve this problem effectively, we need to apply a principle of fairness in our decision-making process."
Alternatives: "utilize a principle" or "implement a principle".
All they can do, the "South Park" creators said, is continue to apply a principle that has guided them from the beginning.
We must keep in mind that in Spain, as a general rule, it is not possible to apply a principle of limited liability to the debtor (that is, legally release the debtor from its debts, fully or partially, when it cannot pay).
Workhouse life was intended to be harsh, to deter the able-bodied poor and to ensure that only the truly destitute would apply, a principle known as less eligibility.
According to the most important of Newton's laws of motion, the acceleration experienced by a body of mass m is proportional to the force F applied, a principle that can be expressed by the equationF = mx″.
By applying a principle of solid oxide fuel cell system, a membrane reactor for selective oxidation has been designed.
Response of the design was a bitterness distance measured using an E‐Tongue by applying a principle component analysis, which represents taste masking efficiency of the formulation.
His justification for this was that one only judges that other human beings are thinking by external observation, and he applied a principle of 'fair play for machines' to argue that the same should hold for machine intelligence.
Subsequent commentary debated the appropriateness of applying a principle governing discrimination against racial minorities and women in education, jobs, and housing to decisions to terminate medical care for some extremely ill or malformed newborns.
This study revisits generic concepts of information granules and Granular Computing in this setting and elaborates on a fundamental way of forming information granules (both sets – intervals as well as fuzzy sets) through applying a principle of justifiable granularity.
