Sentence examples for understood to apply from inspiring English sources

The Self-Incrimination Clause speaks of compelled "testimony," and has always been understood to apply to testimony in all its forms.

The object also has a relatively weak atomic carbon line, a characteristic also found (but still not well understood) to apply in luminous local systems.

From the results it is concluded that the beams are highly redundant and durable, but that the effects of humidity are not yet sufficiently understood to apply them in humid environments.

In 1997 the denomination amended its constitution to bar from the offices of clergy, elder, and deacon any member who was sexually active outside marriage (the amendment was understood to apply primarily to homosexuals).

Recall that the Constitution's first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights, imposed limitations only on the power of Congress; only through later Supreme Court interpretation were most of them understood to apply to the states as well.

It is a sign of Western cultural bias that the term "classical music" is commonly understood to apply to only the music of North America and Europe, although "world music" (an equally catchall term) includes many traditions that are even older.

Caroline Thomson, the BBC chief operating officer, and Helen Boaden, BBC News director, are understood to have applied.

We knew what the law was, and I understood it to apply to everyone in the government.

But in truth, we have only understood how to apply his theory of general relativity for less than fifty years.

Rob Bearden, CEO of Hortonworks, might say that we've understood how to apply the Hadoop open source ecosystem to business needs without departing from open source values.

Other car companies are understood to be considering applying for similar support for their banking arms.