Sentence examples for be applied selectively from inspiring English sources

It can be applied selectively.

The "general principle" seems to now be applied selectively.

Like pain, responsibility is to be applied selectively.

For that principle to mean anything it cannot be applied selectively.

Laws that can be applied to millions of people for millions of different reasons — laws that can only, therefore, be applied selectively — are the perfect instruments of state terror.

But it is hard to avoid suspicions that the rules may be applied selectively to eliminate successful PPP candidates.A new constitution, narrowly passed in a recent referendum, reduces the number of lower-house seats from 500 to 480.

Perhaps these standards, besides their being applied selectively, are suspect on other grounds.

The notion of civic death is applied selectively.

If law is applied selectively, then it becomes an instrument of repression.

The charges against Mr Kuchma may be designed to show that the law has not been applied selectively.

Today, advocates of internment say the policy could be made to work more effectively and win public support if it were applied selectively.