29 Metaphors for application

It is not a matter that I would care to refer to; though, as a matter of fact, one would think that after fifteen years of work an application for an increase of five hundred dollars is the kind of thing that any man ought to be glad to meet half-way.

But, of course, the application of the method to a particular case was the essential thing, for it brought into view all the incidental difficulties, in meeting which all the really interesting and instructive details were involved.

Then the employer may employ any one he desires, provided the employé makes application to become a member of the union within three days after employment.

The application of money raised under a lawful power is a right or grant which may be abused.

But the gyrostatic system does, besides, what the system of naturally acting material particles cannot doit constitutes an elastic solid which can have the Faraday magneto-optic rotation of the plane of polarization of light; supposing the application of our solid to be a model of the luminiferous ether for illustrating the undulatory theory of light.

He was an innovator in modern political thought, and his application of the historical method to the study of institutions is in its way a not less epoch-making achievement than Bacon's application of the inductive method to science.

An application of its principles to points rightly inserted, is as easy a process as that of ordinary syntactical parsing, and perhaps as useful.

A sagacious and methodical application of our thoughts, for the finding out these relations, is the only way to discover all that can be put with truth and certainty concerning them into general propositions.

Some believed that the application of legal justice through the medium of international tribunals and commissions was the only practical method of settling disputes which might become causes of war.

The application of the modern theory of the solar system, the desire for exploration, the use of the mariner's compass, the invention and spread of printing, were more effects of the new movement than its causes.

This application to Milton of a line from the last elegy (25th) in the second book of Propertius is not only an example of Addison's felicity in choice of motto for a paper, but was so bold and well-timed that it must have given a wholesome shock to the minds of many of the Spectators readers.

The recent application of the hot-blast with anthracite coal to the making of iron, and the discovery of a mine of natural steel, would be auxiliaries of immense value.

Now we see that its application to pages, or pictures, or decorations, and so forth, was the borrowed and secondary use; and that primarily its meaning is spiritual.

To make any other application is an utter impossibility.

There are some common rules as to the expediency of compromise and conformity, but their application is a matter of endless variety and the widest elasticity.

[Footnote 11: The application is the conjecture of Black, vol.

The application of the 's, frequently to feminines, and sometimes to plurals, is proof positive that it is not a contraction of the pronoun his; as, "Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the Lady's hair.

God grant that they may understand of how wide and deep an application is the great law, "Except ye be converted," changed, and turned round utterly, "and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."

IMPORTANT LAWS OF HEREDITY A Wise Application of the Laws of Inheritance Is the Most Certain Means of Developing a Superior Race In the preface of Dr. Guyer's remarkable book, "Being Well Born," we read the following: "It is no exaggeration to say that during the last fifteen years, we have made more progress in measuring the extent of inheritance and in determining its elemental factors than in all previous time."

The safety of the public is much increased by this feature of the law, and there can be no doubt that its application to all officers intrusted with the collection or disbursement of the public money, whatever may be the tenure of their offices, would be equally beneficial.

Only application as you know is my trouble.

She had already found out by experience, that a hot application of blankets was the best remedy for a young cold.

It struck me that an application from a little committee in England to the National Assembly of France was not a dignified measure, nor was it likely to have weight with such a body.

His remedyafter a sufficient application of warm blankets, friction, &c., is a simple tumbler, or more, of the purest Cognac, with water, made as hot as the convalescent can bear it.

The universal application of this principle would be the diffusion of universal confidence.

29 Metaphors for  application