Sentence examples for happily applied from inspiring English sources

Even so, the offside rule was not always happily applied.

The title of the documentary, A Charmed Life, which is being screened at the British Film Institute, comes from a phrase that Noble would have happily applied to himself – having survived three major heart attacks and being attacked by members of the National Front in the 1970s.

Happily married, he applied himself energetically to his work, assuming full control over all aspects of the operatic production.

When that rule was applied, he happily observed, parents transferred to teachers the authority to "command obedience, to control stubbornness, to quicken diligence, and to reform bad habits" a quotation from the 1837 North Carolina Supreme Court decision of State v. Pendergrass.

The mother applied the lipstick as she giggled happily.

I applied, was offered a position as a lecturer, and happily accepted.

Before the Davies affair, Mr Michael was happily focused on a political career at Westminster, and had not applied for an assembly seat.

But I am a foreigner and therefore the rules, happily, do not quite apply.

Jackson's point is true in general, but does not seem to apply very happily to the case of mind.

Happily this Dürer etching applies to me and much less to you.

Happily, that criticism does not apply to the songs the men perform.