"implement the spirit of" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe one's effort to bring a particular concept or idea to fruition. For example, "We must implement the spirit of equality and inclusivity in our workplace."
Simon Walker, head of the Institute of Directors, says he wants businesses to heed May's warning and implement the spirit of her demands without waiting for legislation: "Business needs to bloody act fast because rules on this always tend to have perverse outcomes".
(a) One purpose of this part is to implement the spirit of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (the Rehabilitation Act) as amended by section 119 of the Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978 and the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
The problem was that there were insufficient beds in halfway houses to truly implement the spirit of Second Chance.
The article came after the papers published on Monday Mr Xi's speech at a politburo "learning session" on how to implement "the spirit of the 18th party congress".
The European countries backing Airbus later claimed to have eliminated the offending subsidies, but in reality they did almost nothing to implement the spirit of the WTO rulings.
Last November, about 100 top celebrities and film industry figures gathered in Hangzhou at a forum to study and implement the spirit of the 19th congress of the Communist Party and to reflect on their influence on society.
So, in addition to following up in the way I just described on the V-chip--because that's mostly for the industry to do--we will continue to work with them to try to implement the spirit as well as the letter of the Children's Television Act to try to improve both the quality and the quantity of children's programming, again in ways that won't hurt them financially.
But this is only the case because I am the resident of a state that has set up its own exchange, accepted the Medicaid expansion and implemented the spirit as well as the letter of the law.
In an open letter to Dubs, the charity Praksis, which houses a number of the children who had expected to come to the UK, said there was disappointment that a scheme designed to give sanctuary to a large number of unaccompanied minors fleeing from war zones and violent regimes was being implemented without the spirit of generosity that characterised the original project.
"De Bethune is a research and development tool, a laboratory making use of cutting edge technologies, implemented in the spirit of 18th-century master watchmakers," wrote the watch expert Osvaldo Patrizzi, whose auction house Patrizzi and Co. teamed up with De Bethune to exhibit together at the 2010 London Masterpiece collectors fair.
"There's still a question as to whether regulators will implement rules in the spirit of the legislation".
