"Of course there are difficulties in regulating online content and particularly enforcing that regulation, but there are plenty of effective solutions that just need to be seriously applied.
It was not seriously applied until the 1936 U.S. Flood Control Act, which required that the benefits of flood-control projects exceed their costs.
To disappointment-hardened observers of the 40-year (and continuing) shipwreck of Palestinian-Israeli relations, the Obama plan seemed to err on the side of optimism, but if seriously applied, conceivably could work.
But its essential truth is clear from his drawing and painting, to which he seriously applied himself from the age of 60 (he stopped taking photos for Magnum in 1966).
Certainly she took marriage and motherhood seriously, applying what she learned at Vassar to her life at home and giving every evidence that she experienced family as more vocation than blight.
At Rock the Bells, hip-hop takes its verbal craftsmanship seriously, applies it to real-world troubles and tensions, doesn't rely too much on pop choruses and still values its elders.
Not that the word sensible can be seriously applied to a summer when everyone seemed to be straining to beat their own transfer records, and even the clubs that did not manage it, such as Everton on the last day, ended up disappointed.
Safety in numbers is not a revolutionary concept... and Fifth Avenue buses have been bunching together for years in a kind of Diesel-herd instinct -but it's been a long time since anyone seriously applied this principle to our crowded highways.
One study (Harris [2010]) cited frequently in the book claims that the true extent of degradation is uncertain given the poor quality and low frequency of actual monitoring, but this argument is never seriously applied.
Honesty is a value that should be taken seriously, applied fairly, and should be a value that you use regularly -- a sort of litmus test for helping you make decisions.
