Sentence examples for apply only loosely from inspiring English sources
(This was a sticking point for a number of soldiers I spoke with: patient privacy laws apply only loosely in the military, where commanders have access to a soldier's medical history, including what goes on in counseling sessions).
Because the ordinary laws of commercial filmmaking apply only loosely to musicals, the childlike crudeness; the naïve, pie-in-the-sky optimism; and the uneven performances, not to mention the "exotic" (read Aboriginal) elements of "Bran Nue Dae" could work either for or against it outside its homeland.
Yet the term "portrait" can be applied only loosely or tentatively to his bust-length sculptures.
This, however, is loosely based on considerations of multiple realizability that apply only to functional kinds, not to artifact kinds.
This could be loosely termed a ban, but it was a requirement that applied only to those people who ask to study religious texts with him.
He applied only to Pratt.
Furthermore, water metering and billing are only loosely applied to nationals.
Often, it is applied loosely (too loosely) to any form of change, however minor or routine.
Where theory is used, it is often only loosely referred to rather than rigorously applied to intervention design and evaluation (Painter, Borba, Hynes, Mays, & Glanz, 2008; Prestwich et al., 2013).
In liquid water, the charges are only loosely arranged But if an electric field is applied, the charges snap into formation, all pointing in the same direction.
