It works if it can clearly be seen that the system is applied seriously and is not cosmetic.
Although Candolle's laws were adopted by the congress, they were not applied seriously by the botanists.
Publishers are a shrewd bunch, if "shrewd" can be applied seriously to people who sink money into the production of books, a seemingly losing endeavor.
Eddy-resolving methods such as Large and Detached Eddy Simulation (LES/DES) may be contrasted with the time-averaged, three-dimensional simulations that only really began to be applied seriously in geomorphology fifteen years ago.
But now Marschak persuaded me to apply myself seriously".
In 1996 California's voters adopted Proposition 215, also known as the Medical Marijuana Initiative, which holds that the state's criminal laws against marijuana do not apply to seriously ill patients who use the drug on the advice of their physicians.
That these habits are not fool-proof is a consequence of the fact that our ability to apply them seriously to ourselves is one of the bases for our ultimate punishment and reward.
Though Dury never applied himself seriously to being an artist, he did work for a time as an illustrator for the Sunday Times.
It was only at the third attempt that he managed to pass the entrance examination to the Royal Military College, now Academy, Sandhurst, but, once there, he applied himself seriously and passed out (graduated) 20th in a class of 130.
Each excerpt was greeted with applause, followed by a brief bow from Mr. Bronfman, who then applied himself seriously to the next work: a thick, dark reading of a familiar Chopin étude (Opus 10, No. 12), the final movement of Prokofiev's Seventh Sonata, another movement of the Schumann.
