Wall Street analysts tend to fixate on return on equity (ROE), but it can be a misleading, especially when applied blindly to financial institutions.

Before his resignation last month, Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa told the Chinese just what they wanted to hear: That Western concepts of human rights should not be "blindly applied" in Asia.

As with all matters relating to pore pressure analysis, the method cannot be applied blindly.

In 1963, he "blindly applied for a job in the art department" of The Plain Dealer and was hired to replace editorial cartoonist Ed Kuekes.

I would like to remind General Borzov," David Brown said almost immediately in his sonorous voice, "that some of us do not believe the priorities should be blindly applied in a serial fashion.

I was simply trying to show, by reductio ad absurdum, that the rule of keeping the public informed can. . . like any rule. . . lead to disaster if applied blindly.

Although attractive, local normalization should not be applied blindly as it can hide real failures in the data and create its own artifacts.

This algorithm is not blindly applied to every file, however.

A common fisheries policy (CFP) cannot, however, be blindly applied: it must take account of local and regional variations between different fisheries, fleets and regions of the Member States dependent on this sector, and the populations involved.

Moreover, the idea that the lack of complete information is not an excuse for avoiding the adoption of precautionary measures (especially where the decline in biodiversity is beyond doubt) is, if not applied blindly, a worthy principle for taking action.