The phrase "apply a standard" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the implementation or enforcement of a specific criterion or guideline in a particular context.
Example: "In order to ensure quality control, we need to apply a standard to all our products before they are shipped."
Alternatives: "enforce a criterion" or "implement a guideline."
Ecosystem orchestrators don't apply a standard approach to partner selection and management.
We apply a standard trust game in the field with three treatments that allow us to relate our experimental results to actual soil conservation investments.
I apply a standard of proof and if I don't think something is true on a balance of probabilities, I'm not putting it in the book, however appealing it is.
They argued the previous leadership wanted to apply a standard Congress meant for regular lightbulbs — the ones with the traditional pear-like shape — to many unconventional breeds of bulbs.
Some voters have sought to apply a standard in which players are given full credit for statistics they compiled during seasons in which they were not suspected of steroid use, while discarding or discounting those in which they were.
Greece scrap discounts on the islands and apply a standard 23 per cent VAT Introduce reforms on income tax Increase the retirement age to 67 years Increase corporate tax to 28 per cent See the full EU proposals here.
The corresponding time domain results are calculated by applying a standard inverse fast Fourier transformation technique.
"If the tribunal misunderstands the code, or misapplies it, they've applied a standard which is not the standard of conduct applicable to the conduct of the practitioner.
The reason the government is so enthusiastic about the concept is it promises to streamline the sometimes arduous planning process by applying a standard market value to biodiversity.
In addition to processing the VMC dataset with VirMAP, we applied a standard taxonomic classification method (see "methods" section) for comparative purposes.
Therefore, the angular integral can be computed by summing a series instead of applying a standard numerical integration algorithm.
