Here is a solution I built from the help I got in another thread. Hope it is useful. I thought it was!

It allows you to create a list by filtering for both included items and excluded items. You can remove all items from one list from a second list and also exclude items from a third list.

bigList = {"item1", "item2", "item3", "item4", "item6", "item7", 
   "item8", "item9"};
    excludedElements = {"item1", "item2", "item5", "item6"};
    includedElements = {"item8", "item9"};

Select[Select[bigList, 
    StringFreeQ[#, excludedElements] &],
     ! StringFreeQ[#, includedElements] &]

Out[14]={"item8", "item9"}

Hello Serhan and Douglas, Yes my question was ultimately more general : given the (say) 3-components vector example, {f[x,y,z],g[x,y,z],h[x,y,z]}, and the three sets of rules, rulef={x->uf,y->vf,z->wf}, ruleg={x->ug,y->vg,z->wg}, ruleh={x->uh,y->vh,z->wh}, to apply rulef to f[x,y,z], ruleg to g[x,y,z] and ruleh to h[x,y,z] in a single and concise way. MapThread (apparently not Inner) does the job (see Frank's post above) :

MapThread[ReplaceAll, {{f[x, y, z], g[x, y, z], h[x, y, z]}, {{x -> uf, y -> vf, z -> wf}, {x -> ug, y -> vg, z -> wg}, {x -> uh, y -> vh, z -> wh}}}]

Answer : {f[uf, vf, wf], g[ug, vg, wg], h[uh, vh, wh]}

Regards

If the oversimplified list is always of that form then a simple transformation is:

In[32]:= x /. Partition[{x -> a, x -> b, x -> c}, 1]

Out[32]= {a, b, c}

The first solution sligthly less time-consuming, Many thanks, Andre

In[11]:= Inner[ReplaceAll, {x, x, x}, {x -> a, x -> b, x -> c}, List]

Out[11]= {a, b, c}