Sentence examples for is aptly applied from inspiring English sources

From bad to worse: the expression is aptly applied to the currently becalmed UK box office.

The designation European Capital of Culture is aptly applied this year to Bruges (or Brugge, to use the Belgian city's Flemish name): during the 14th and 15th centuries it was a cultural bridge between northern and southern Europe.

The agreement in that case being, that the house should not be opened for the purposes of entertainment to the detriment of Vauxhall Gardens, the Court granted the injunction; that was the performance of the agreement in substance, and the term " specific performance" is aptly applied in such a case, but not in the sense in which it has been used before me.

Arthur C. Clarke's oft-quoted law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," is aptly applied to Rosenkrantz's Kinematic Petals Dress.

This is especially true in New York and London, where observers are straining to find sufficient prefixes (mega, hyper and super have all been aptly applied) to describe the pace at which gentrification is changing the city.

The expression "different strokes for different folks" could be aptly applied to the case of a Brazilian man who was reportedly caught on camera having sex with a mannequin during an alleged burglary.

With its origins in a strategy devised by the Disraeli government to keep 19th century Britain quarantined from the murky affairs of the European continent, the foreign policy doctrine of "splendid isolation" was aptly applied to America prior to its involvement in the First and Second World Wars.

We conclude that the popular guilt by association principle can be aptly applied to the brain atlas database, transforming it into a rich source for functional genomic studies in neuroscience, in addition to a reference data repository.

And if the word "cowardly" is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others.

The "half elevator, half train" analogy is most aptly applied to the Otis Elevating Railway that connected the Catskill Mountain Railway and the Catskill & Tannersville Railway, near Catskill, N.Y.

The term "The Shot Heard Round The World" is more aptly applied to his debut than to Bobby Thomson's homer four years later to defeat Robinson's Dodgers for the NL pennant.