The phrase "apt in this context" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a word, phrase, or idea that is suitable or appropriate in a specific context. Example: The word "resilience" is apt in this context because it accurately captures the ability to overcome hardship and bounce back from difficult situations.
But what really makes the word apt in this context is that the enemies of reform can't withstand sunlight.
That final revelation, if so florid a word is apt in this context, may still be decades off, if indeed some hidden flaw does not bring the whole logical structure crashing to earth before then.
However, just which sense of 'natural' is most apt in this context is highly controversial and I shall return to this point shortly.
The report doesn't use the term "addiction," but the similarity between uncontrolled dependence on an addictive substance and academe's dependence on underpaid and overly numerous graduate students and postdocs makes the word apt in this context.
Wittgenstein's iconic dictum is quite apt in this context: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent".
It can be – and this is not a word to be thrown around lightly, but is apt in this context – harrowing.
Research in weight-control drugs, food and technology is booming, so perhaps scientists will find a way that we can have our cake and eat it, too (a particularly apt metaphor in this context).
In modern philosophy, there is an ongoing debate over whether one can have vague and fuzzy sets or kinds, but for science we need only a little logic and metaphysics: If we can identify mountains, rivers, and organisms, we can identify species, and they will tend to have a "family resemblance" (Wittgenstein's most apt phrase in this context).
Update: I should note that I personally know Gould, Allison, Pareene, Sicha, Stein, Coen, Haber and a number of the people who write for the sites I link to, including FishbowlNY, which seems a particularly apt name in this context.
I had given up on understanding William Carlos Williams's text, so it was a revelation when words (obviously apt in this musical context) came through like a beacon: "It is a principle of music to repeat the theme.
Ground zero, for example -- a term that originated with the Manhattan Project and was originally used in connection with nuclear explosions -- seems particularly apt in this new context, with its sense of absolute finality, of a point that is both an end and a beginning and to which everything else refers.
