Sentence examples for it ought to be applied from inspiring English sources

He added: "We're a country of laws, and it ought to be applied evenly and fairly to all".

There is no evidence so far of the power of the word to enchant New York voters at any level, and it is doubtful whether it ought to be applied to the governorship, an office with a royalist patina that is fundamenttal to the adversary system New York voters have come to depend on.

What is less clear is how it is applied, how it ought to be applied and how it will be applied in the future.

Its lessons ought to be applied to other situations cautiously, precisely because of the film's principal strength: its deep roots in a specific time and place.

The meaning determining fact, Kripke argues, must be such that it follows from it how the term ought to be applied (ibid: 11).

The latter has been questioned on the grounds that even if it is true that 'green' ought to be applied this way, the 'ought' in question may not have anything to do with semantics but, say, with religious practices (Byrne 2002: 207).

It insists upon the necessity of adhering not to all of Roe, but only to what it calls the "central holding". It seems to me that stare decisis ought to be applied even to the doctrine of stare decisis, and I confess never to have heard of this new, keep what you want and throw away the rest version.

But Mill does think that whether sanctions ought to be applied to an action and hence whether it is wrong and whether society ought to enforce an individual's claim and hence whether she has a right both depend upon the utility or expediency of doing so (V 25).

It is true that there are many worthwhile preventative care interventions that ought to be applied more widely (both among children and adults).

In the present case the condition which fails and prevents the achievement of that which was, in the contemplation of both parties, the foundation of the contract, is not expressly mentioned either as a condition of the contract or the purpose of it; but I think for the reasons which I have given that the principle of Taylor v. Caldwell ought to be applied.

The question is where and when shame ought to be applied.