Sentence examples for they only applied from inspiring English sources

But they only applied to my particular case.

"They seemed quite defensive and seemed to be more interested in justifying their position, saying they didn't make the tax laws – they only applied them," he said.

The prime minister defended the government's proposed superannuation changes, saying they only applied to a "very small percentage of taxpayers and superannuants" who had contributed more than $500,000 in after-tax income and had super balances "well over $2m".

In the previously reported method based on KPCA [8], they only applied the simple k-means method to the known low-frequency components for the clustering and the classification.

About 90 of the 211 (89.6% of) respondents who said they had read the guidelines also reported applying the depression guidelines in their practice, although most of them said they only applied the guidelines partially.

¥Dummy coding was used for these variables (i.e., allocating mean scores to those with "missing" data) as they only applied to selected sub-groups, namely those who answered the barriers section of the survey (i.e., MH problems but no advice sought, or needs not met) and those with at least one service contact (for the "number of contacts" variable).

They seem to be thinking, because they are his own rules, they mean whatever he says they mean and they only apply when he wants them to.

But those codes have yet to be fully tested -- the recent storms did not strike those counties directly -- and they only apply to new construction.

The new rules have already been criticised as inadequate because they only apply to tax-dodging individuals and not to companies or investment funds.

If the former, then the no-smoking signs in hospital wards may have to be modified slightly to make it clear that they only apply to tobacco.

Those rare cases do not include sex between heterosexual Italians (in fact, they only apply to gay male prostitutes), but the line, having been pushed, must now be defended all the more rigorously.