The phrase "apply the terms" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the implementation or enforcement of specific conditions or agreements in a given context.
Example: "Before proceeding with the contract, both parties must agree to apply the terms outlined in the document."
Alternatives: "enforce the conditions" or "implement the stipulations."
To apply the terms boss and machine to the current party organizations would be a gross exaggeration.
Would you yourself apply the terms "naturalistic" or "realistic" to your body of work, as so many critics and viewers have?
H. L. Mencken popularized the brow system in "The American Language," and the critic and scholar Van Wyck Brooks was among the first to apply the terms to cultural attitudes and practices... There's more than a whiff in those words of their rank etymological origin in the pseudoscience of phrenology.
The other terms of the latest Google offer, described on Monday by European officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal is not yet final, included an offer to apply the terms to any way that a user conducts an online search through Google, including voice instructions.
Nor could one trained practitioner have authority over another in resolving interpretive disputes about how to execute the ritual, e.g., about how to apply the terms found in ritual texts to concrete real-time behaviors.
However, nobody would apply the term "paper tiger" to the Organisation Department.
Seneca, for example, wrote that it is proper to apply the term providence to God.
Ms. Frazer is one of the first high-ranking Western officials to apply the term ethnic cleansing to Kenya.
But does it make any sense at all to apply the term "urban planning" to the Strip?
But even though its defenders no longer apply the term widely, the concept of the soul has endured.
Vitaly Churkin, the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, appropriated the ongoing hysteria over "fake news" to apply the term to Western coverage of Syria.
