What is "applies"

Usage examples of "applies".

The following sentence applies to that a priori judging and uncandid class of individuals who buy their dinners without tasting all the food there is in the market.

This particularly applies to successive stages of cultural evolution, from the hunt to the farm to the engine to the computer.

Nay, sometimes by gaining time the disease applies to the French military politics, and corrupts nature over to his side, and then all the powers of physic must arrive too late.

In other words, legally, morally, and politically free subjects: this is a state of affairs that actually applies to world citizens, not just to citizens of this or that state.

This applies to the infant, for example, when it no longer dissolves in tears if food is not immediately forthcoming.

This dialectical analysis applies to all things, all thoughts, all categories: they are all mutually dependent upon each other and thus are nothing in themselves.

This applies in quite a special degree to the manipulations to which man, led by his death-bound consciousness, has learnt to submit matter in his laboratories.

In a still higher degree this applies to the seed, which must separate itself from the mother plant to produce a separate new organism.

Thus the conception of number is created solely within the human mind, which applies it to things from outside.

Nonetheless, the same principle applies to terrestrial settings, and in fact is commonly experienced.

This slowing of time applies not just to the watches worn by the muons but also to all activities they might undertake.

It is important to realize that this limit applies not only to material objects but also to signals and influences of any kind.

Feynman expressed this view more than three decades ago, it applies equally well today What he meant is that although the special and general theories of relativity require a drastic revision of previous ways of seeing the world, when one fully accepts the basic principles underlying them, the new and unfamiliar implications for space and time follow directly from careful logical reasoning.

In fact, although we have focused on the electron, this discussion applies equally well to all electrically charged particles and is summarized by saying that quantum effects drive the strength of the electromagnetic force to get larger when examined on shorter distance scales.

But at the same time the McGill postcard -- and this applies to all other postcards in this genre -- is not intended as pornography but, a subtler thing, as a skit on pornography.