But officials with the Rhodes Scholarship Trust said this week that they had no record of Williams ever applying for a scholarship, let alone having to weigh whether to attend a finalist's interview.
Danes, for instance, can land in 169 countries or territories without ever applying for a visa, according to Henley & Partners, a law firm that analyzes visa regulations every year.
This is, of course, the fantasy of any who have ever applied for a loan.
And if you ever apply for a job at American Management Services, don't mention that you like to play golf.
The only crime Mr. Dawkins is charged with is lying on a 2006 passport application that asked if he had ever applied for a passport before.
When I asked Ripka if a Jew or Muslim had ever applied for a job at the bank, his choice of language was a bit odd: "We don't really have that in our community at this point".
"If you've ever applied for a credit card, a student loan or a mortgage, you know the feeling of signing your name to pages of barely understandable fine print," Mr. Obama said.
But, as anyone who has ever applied for a United States visa (let alone an Indian one) will know, governments can be startlingly poor at designing their processes and serving their customers.There are three main elements to IDEO's "design thinking".
One year, I even trained and passed some seriously difficult tests in order to become an official Junior Maine Guide, which, as I understand it, would be a real feather in my cap if I ever applied for a job as a Maine forest ranger.
"I think I'm the only electrical engineer who's ever applied for a marine mammal harassment permit," Gregory Walker, director of the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, said, referring to a federal permit necessary for close study of the animals.
At the time that notice was issued, no Ph.D. had ever applied for a K23.
