The phrase "strictly applied" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a rule, principle, or standard that is followed very closely and without exceptions. Example: The dress code at the company is strictly applied, so make sure to wear professional attire to the meeting.
Narrative technique is strictly applied.
If he had strictly applied the guidelines to the men in his study, he said, one in every seven would have required a biopsy.
Although just intonation occupied the attention of many theorists, its disadvantages are so great that it is doubtful whether the system was ever strictly applied to harmonized music.
Strictly applied, the term mitosis is used to describe the duplication and distribution of chromosomes, the structures that carry the genetic information.
Alberti advised using shades of color, according to their "reception of light," to give shape to figures, though when his theories were strictly applied, as by Veneziano, they led to a static, decorative effect.
And a 1998 article in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, warned that failure to strictly follow the guidelines could cause poisonings "even in countries where quality control procedures are usually strictly applied".
But two hours later, when Governor Leavitt proposed changing the order in which issues would be debated, Mr. Griffith said the requirement for a two-thirds vote must be strictly applied to the commission agenda.
"I'm not unsympathetic to Justice Scalia's position; after all, in many cases the language of the Constitution is perfectly clear and can be strictly applied," he writes in "The Audacity of Hope".
Rehnquist also tried repeatedly to restrict the widened application of the fourteenth amendment, arguing that it must be strictly applied to the racial discrimination that had brought it into being.
When Judge George W. Greer, a conservative Florida Republican, rather strictly applied the law to the Theresa Schiavo matter, he was vilified by his own party and asked to leave his church.
Unlike football in this country, these guidelines are strictly applied, not just in letter but also in spirit, as the outcry that greeted Limbaugh's proposed ownership of the Rams has illustrated.
