Sentence examples for than it applies from inspiring English sources

He sharply criticized an "apartheid economy" that was benefiting only the rich, and he bemoaned the state of affairs in a country with "far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies".

Not long after leaving the American Embassy for the West, he angered his host, James Lilley, the American ambassador to China, by publicly accusing the United States of holding China to a lower human rights standard than it applied to the Soviet Union and its treatment of dissidents.

But this law is weaker than planned: it applies only to murder, not other crimes.

Actually, this cut will hit many more strivers than skivers, as it applies to in-work benefits, too.

Essentially, AIC and BIC will give similar answers with BIC leading to simpler models than AIC because it applies a larger penalty for complex models [ 29, 30].

The universal saying that it is always easier to destroy something than to repair it applies very much in this case – especially after so many years of war and destruction of infrastructure and morale.

The idea of safety in numbers has more than one dimension as it applies here.

Rather than spraying the ink, it applies continuous color tones from a ribbon before overlaying a transparent protective layer.

At first, this applied only to firms with more than 20 employees; now it applies to smaller companies and the civil service too.

The IMO convention is primarily aimed at commercial shipping — it is legally binding on vessels of more than 400 tons — but it applies equally to large private yachts.

Much has been said about Trump's rhetoric – the New Yorker called it "fervent incoherence"; Susan Sarandon likens it to "your drunk uncle at a wedding" – more than a little of it applies to Sanders.