invoke

How To Use invoke In A Sentence

• You may be trying to invoke the ‘echos from the supernal world’ but they're everywhere and where-ever people say they're doing magic there's a bit of truth there.
• These provisions, although expressed at a level of great generality, have often been invoked by those who posit the existence of a broad international duty to cooperate or a right to solidarity.
• The judge invoked an international law that protects refugees.
• He invoked the name of Freud in support of his argument.
• If the TV shows that someone has clearly made a dive, the FA should invoke a new rule, requiring that player to wear a red armband for the rest of the season.
• He also invoked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to reject the requests.
• The weather invokes a metaphysical sense of coming apocalypse, signaled by the bells that continue to toll throughout.
• Most general breaches that in medal play invoke a two-stroke penalty, such as playing a wrong ball (as Mr. Fowler did in a foursomes match at the Ryder Cup), result in match play in loss of the hole. Can We Have More Match Play?
• Richard Kraft: Something With Birds In It | A site-specific installation composed of four elements, Something With Birds In It invokes the friction and fluidity between familiar polarities--between the sacred and profane, sense and nonsense, play and violence, reflection and action. Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011)
• The phenomenon is difficult to measure, St. Pierre and several others said, because the term jury nullification is rarely invoked; defendants with substantial evidence against them are simply acquitted, or juries deadlock. Thestar.com - Home Page