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Many of the current laws on the books would be moot, unused and unapplied except in very rare, blatantly obvious cases of wrongdoing, were juries doing their jobs of reflecting the proper application of the law. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What people want to do through language is more important than the mastery of language as an unapplied system. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not if they are taught as an end in themselves, which is the problem of the unapplied grammar teaching that Wilkins refers to. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Why is it that “the mastery of language as an unapplied system” again takes precedence over its communicative purposes? ❋ Unknown (2010)

This tendency can quite easily become exaggerated as the attempt to master language as an unapplied system. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think about the success my own coursebook series has had over the past couple of years (a 24-book series that focuses on “skills” – rather similar to the notional/functional approach you describe above, with “strategies” treated as facilitative actions that build on broader communicative skills), and it seems to be pretty good evidence that an applied (as opposed to unapplied) system still has resonance with learners and schools. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is important for technology companies to be doing this sort of unapplied research. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's unpopular with those that study state and federal constitutions that have equal protections clauses knowing they are going unapplied to millions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is no such thing to him as unapplied theology. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The realistic and practical leanings of his intellect naturally gave him a distaste for the collection of mere uninterpreted and unapplied facts. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A : they broke the law by taking unapplied public spaces into their marching route. ❋ Michael Turton (2006)

Should you therefore expatiate in the praise of some virtue, which some in company notoriously want; or declaim against any vice, which others are notoriously infected with, your reflections, however general and unapplied, will, by being applicable, be thought personal and leveled at those people. ❋ Unknown (2005)

All the learning in the world is for naught if the lessons learned go unapplied. ❋ Jennifer Ann Daddio (2003)

This left Starfleet with an unapplied spaceframe that had performed extremely well in early warp-field simulations. ❋ ADAM “MOJO” LEBOWITZ (2001)

No information existing as to its price, or the quantity that could be obtained if it were wanted, chica remains in the state of an unapplied product. ❋ George Field (N/A)