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[ verb ] apply oneself to
Examples "Please apply yourself to your homework" Used in print (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)In_the_last_analysis , religion is the means of inducing , formulating , expressing , enhancing , implementing , and perpetuating man 's deepest experience - the religious . Related terms |
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[ verb ] pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
Examples "Did he go through with the treatment?" "He implemented a new economic plan" "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal" Used in print (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit - when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands - two purposes were served : Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will , and law became a rational system for implementing that will , for serving conscious goals , for embodying the `` public policy '' . |
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[ verb ] ensure observance of laws and rules
Examples "Apply the rules to everyone"; Used in print (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)It is because each side has sought to implement its distinctive theological belief through legislation and thus indirectly force its belief , or at_least the practical consequences thereof , upon others . Related terms |
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[ noun ] instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end
Used in print (John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)Primary feelings of the world come neither as a collection of clearly known objects ( houses , trees , implements , etc . ) nor a collection of isolated and neutral sensory qualities . (Vina Delmar, The Big Family....)Implements of wood and iron are available for close and hasty combat no_matter where a man stands . |
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