Sentence examples for means to apply from inspiring English sources

Ms. Loncraine means to apply a Freudian logic to the stimuli that shaped Baum's endlessly inventive storytelling.

An action can be illegal, so it's one thing to talk about "illegal immigration", but I'm not sure what it means to apply that adjective to a person.

Politics can get ugly for showbiz people, to pervert the old adage, and Murray will need a lot of stamina (comic and otherwise), depending on how seriously he means to apply himself to the task.

"Even in Muslim-majority countries, there is a huge debate about what it means to apply Islamic law in the modern world," said Andrew F. March, an associate professor specializing in Islamic law at Yale University.

But also realize that "Cheap" refers to the Ponzi scheme of the disgraced financier "Michael" Madoff and includes the following thought, which Ms. Shell means to apply to discount shopping: "Actually being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger was not what got early man running; it was the dread of being eaten by that tiger".

However, an understanding of the human factors and systems engineering is lacking, and confusion remains about what it means to apply their principles.

The government said the law was meant to apply only to the disfavored procedure.

Apparently, this principle is meant to apply only to judicial nominees supported by conservatives.

They have forgotten you are meant to apply it to your opponents rather than yourselves.

But the official said the directive was not meant to apply universally.

"The A.M.T. is crazy; it was never meant to apply to middle-class taxpayers," said Representative Jim McCrery, Republican of Louisiana.