In the interest of nature, the garden has studiously applied artifice.
All the elements are in place, the colors have been studiously applied, but the result is too neat and too sloppy, as though painted by numbers with an unpracticed hand.
I missed listening to music and gazing at myself in the mirror for half an hour every morning as I studiously applied my black-winged eyeliner and creamy blush.
The court studiously avoided applying its ruling to the 20 states that use a less drastic form of open primary to choose candidates, so the new ruling is unlikely to be the last word on the matter.
This integrity, which has made him one of our greatest character actors (he was knighted last year), is a quality he has applied studiously to his Norfolk retreat.
Still, Ortega has applied himself studiously to his task, and the film is some recompense for those deprived by his death of seeing Jackson live".
remained studiously apolitical, it could issue such warnings publicly, and financial markets would then apply the pressure for change.
Standard FDIC-type procedures, which are best practice internationally, were applied to small- and medium-banks, but studiously avoided for large banks.
Religion should not be a criterion of EU membership.Your leader studiously ignores the role of the United States and the pressure it is applying to EU governments on behalf of Turkey.
François Fillon, the prime minister, who had kept studiously quiet, this week said that the struggle against illegal immigration "should not be exploited".Mr Sarkozy, a former interior minister, has always applied a tough-talking, zero-tolerance approach to illegal immigration and crime.
This not only applies at the much simpler operational and field level – where, for example, anything that even hints at religious expression and practice is studiously shunned by secular aid programmes – but even more so to the far more complex issues surrounding progress, development and the meaning of civilisation.
