Sentence examples for were better applied from inspiring English sources

I became convinced that if science and technology were better applied to the challenges of Africa, the tremendous potential of the continent would be unleashed, and people could be healthier and fulfill their promise.Since our first visit, many African countries have made striking advances, driven by wise government investments in health and education and agriculture.

Peak-period (congestion) pricing would be better, applied only where travel density warrants it.

With more knowledge, these approaches can be better applied to provide smarter solutions.

They might also think about whether the money might be better applied elsewhere (i.e., life insurance and cash reserves).

Perhaps the parasite description may be better applied to politicians, who finally seem to have woken up to the fact that publishing is a thriving "creative industry".

After all, there have now been a lot of Supreme Court justices, so this theme will be better applied to cubs in a higher-ranking family.

It would be better applied to a meeting which is not chiefly a festival of self-congratulation and, as in Genoa's particular case, a public-relations disaster.

"Faux sophistication" — and that is quite a charge for Will to be lobbing — is a term that might be better applied to the glib explanations given to students about how it is a privilege to pay interest for decades.

In this context, it might be better applied to, say, Garry Winogrand or Joel Meyerowitz, photographers who pounded the streets in search of the right convergence of light, action and expression rather than patterns and geometry.

The technology is better applied to vehicles and buildings, like the rotors of the helicopter in the Skyscraper Mayhem set and the spinning beacon in the Police Station Zombie Defense set.

My nephew Wyatt had no negative after-effects of the security check, but his mother, Elizabeth Wald, said she was convinced that the resources used for searching a 7-year-old who was traveling with his parents and younger brother could have been better applied elsewhere.