The phrase "are better applied" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the effectiveness or suitability of certain methods, techniques, or principles in a specific context.
Example: "In this situation, theoretical concepts are better applied to real-world scenarios to enhance understanding."
Alternatives: "are more effectively utilized" or "are more suitably employed."
Peak-period (congestion) pricing would be better, applied only where travel density warrants it.
With more knowledge, these approaches can be better applied to provide smarter solutions.
They might also think about whether the money might be better applied elsewhere (i.e., life insurance and cash reserves).
Perhaps the parasite description may be better applied to politicians, who finally seem to have woken up to the fact that publishing is a thriving "creative industry".
After all, there have now been a lot of Supreme Court justices, so this theme will be better applied to cubs in a higher-ranking family.
It would be better applied to a meeting which is not chiefly a festival of self-congratulation and, as in Genoa's particular case, a public-relations disaster.
"Faux sophistication" — and that is quite a charge for Will to be lobbing — is a term that might be better applied to the glib explanations given to students about how it is a privilege to pay interest for decades.
In this context, it might be better applied to, say, Garry Winogrand or Joel Meyerowitz, photographers who pounded the streets in search of the right convergence of light, action and expression rather than patterns and geometry.
The technology is better applied to vehicles and buildings, like the rotors of the helicopter in the Skyscraper Mayhem set and the spinning beacon in the Police Station Zombie Defense set.
These include the unions that represent the state's corrections officers, who worry about lost jobs; defense lawyers, who say the distance will make it hard for them to interact with clients; community advocates, who say the millions of dollars spent out of state would be better applied to the local economy; and families of inmates, who say the transfers cause them great hardship.
