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
Those who invoke it are signalling an equivocal stance on slavery, at best, and thus are insulting all black people.
For example, an interest in the context sensitivity of realization in philosophy of mind (Wilson 2004, ch. 6) invokes issues pertaining to the context objection, individuation, temporality (especially causation versus constitution), and intrinsicality. Reductionism in Biology
The UN threatened to invoke economic sanctions if the talks were broken off.
There is no heroism in butchery, no heroism in suicide, no heroism in writing that invokes, and profits from, the war you have left behind.
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Should police be able to invoke emergency powers to prevent a terrorist attack, and if so, how?
In An Allegory, for example, the composition invokes the sublime order of classical art.
Could you still invoke the same tectonic processes for deep time that were applicable to the last few hundred million years? THE EARTH: An Intimate History
In addition to any statutory rights of appeal, there may be a right to invoke the inherent supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court.
It shows no great sense of sportsmanship, but rather invokes a suspicion of envy of some kind.
She borrows it from the animal world and evokes or invokes it on the subject of procreation.
Nevertheless, your long-term astrological omens demand that I invoke them to describe your destiny. Hey, not fair, Universe!
Also patron of good weather and rain; he is invoked against bad luck and plague.
Whilst such hormonal changes may be the proximate cause of false oestrus events here, at least three different abnormal hormonal mechanisms must be invoked to explain the occurrence in senescent females, pregnant females, and females in lactational anoestrus. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies.
The civil religion has not always been invoked in favor of worthy causes. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
Most relics were credited with miraculous healing powers, while some were also invoked as guardians of justice. The Times Literary Supplement
Why did he invoke the swarthy boogeymen of the modern right-wing imagination right before launching into a verse about the good old days when his "grandpappy" would "take all the rope in Texas ... find a tall oak tree," and "hang them high in the street, for all the people to see? Max Blumenthal: Feelin' The Hate With Toby Keith Nation
She repeatedly invokes the ocean's radical non-humanity, asking readers to imagine underwater 'tides so vast they are invisible and uncomprehended by the senses of man', or lights traveling over the water 'that flash and fade away, lights that come and go for reasons meaningless to man', though 'man, in his vanity, subconsciously attributes a human origin' to them. Rachel Carson's environmental ethics
I like to call it beginner's luck and invoke the empirical evidence at horse racing tracks and Las Vegas casinos.
Naturally, much of this book stems from the writers' residencies in Menton and the spirit of Katherine Mansfield is often invoked, explicitly or implicitly.
And yet, our currency invokes our trust in God, our leaders pray for divine guidance and, apparently, the Pentagon annotates briefing memos with Bible verses. RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
Visitors had to wend and weave their way around corners and curves to reach the various spaces, which once again invoked the trope of the medieval city.
The uninvoked Section 215 doesn't actually mention libraries and is aimed at things like airline, hotel, and bank records.
$expected must be a well-formed block of HTML. capture (\&function, ...) - > ($text, $result) Invokes a function while grabbing stdout, so the "http response" doesn't flood the console that you're running the unit test from, and you can analyse the result in your test function. TWiki.Codev
Die Ziet ist unendlich lang is an admonition that can be profitably invoked upon human enterprise in general far oftener than it is, but the time for this particular enterprise is very closely limited by circumstances. The Jewish Problem in America
Now it is rare to see his name in print unless it is being invoked as shorthand for corrupted innocence or curdled dreams.
Muezzins invoke a call to prayer, reminding everyone it is either time to pray or to call them to the mosque, and imams lead the prayers.
Not to continue to invoke the hallowed name of Buffy, but the care with which Joss Whedon brought Willow into college life and then out of the closet is a good model to follow. 'Heroes' recap: Claire gets her girl on and Peter trips the light fantastic | EW.com
I also will say "touche" to that one, as I am a flagrant invoker of poetic license when it comes to the word "alot" and several others. Funny Strange is Lori Culwell's blog.
Cash's cover invokes an image of an epic judgment day for a planet festering with failed lovers.
The judge invoked an international law that protects refugees.
The copybook usually shows how the word is pronounced, accented and syllabized, and how standard spelling rules are invoked to determine its conventional spelling.
She invokes strong rhythms and uses the percussion section effectively throughout the work, including bells, piano, triangle - and celesta.
You can deny it all you want and put on your somber face and cry your crocodile tears when decrying the results you have invoked and "preyed" for; but, your only regret is that the the real target was not hit. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
Lawyers for the two men sent letters to the committee Tuesday saying they would invoke their rights against self-incrimination in choosing not to answer the committee's questions. Solyndra Executives to Plead the Fifth
The ambient subdued lighting enhances the Art Deco boldness as the black and white tiled floor and sculpted bar invoke memories of speakeasy days and jazz filled nights.
All while she was unable to violate the yoke of the unprecedented use of the arcane "States Secrets Privilege", invoked by the DoJ in such a draconian fashion that she is still "gagged" from disclosing even innocuous personal details such as her date of birth. Brad Friedman: EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Ellsberg Says Sibel Edmonds Case 'Far More Explosive Than Pentagon Papers'
The Republicans say they are the "party of Lincoln" (although they probably drive Bimmers), or they invoke Ronald Reagan in worshipful tones, as if just saying the name will somehow cast a spell of happy faces, white bread and "Leave It to Beaver" marathons. March 2006
To invoke a hallowed Jewish category, Judaism is the religion that my Jewish ethnicity commands of me.
In Catholicism, when the Bishop of Rome invokes his authority as Successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ, and speaks from the Chair of Peter, his pronouncement is binding on all Catholics throughout the world. Snow Angels
Sometimes policy makers, including those who piously invoke the idea of "data-driven" practice, pursue initiatives they favor regardless of the fact that no empirical support for them exists (e.g., high-stakes testing) or even when the research suggests the policy in question is counterproductive (e.g., forcing struggling students to repeat a grade). Do tests really help students learn -- or was a new study misreported? -- Kohn
Nevertheless, the idea has survived, gaining credence even in official circles, and continues to be invoked in any discussion, official or otherwise, of the future of the Egyptian theatre.
When you select a lab option menu field, the Ajax script invokes a GET Web service in DivisionsResource in the Resource Request Handler, which returns an array of divisions for the selected lab.
Also patron of epileptics and runaways; she is invoked against diabolic possession and mental disorders.
Multiculturalism can be invoked by minority groups to attack the conformism and conservatism of the larger society, and to pressure it to accept the new realities of openness and pluralism.
In conclusion, fellow citizens, allow me to invoke in behalf of your deliberations that spirit of conciliation and disinterestedness which is the gift of patriotism. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
In order to make application development get rid of bottom hardware restriction, and to invoke hardware device through a general interface, device interface is defined in SCA system.
In Part 3 I 'maximized' the composition, now the art of subtraction is invoked, and I begin to intentionally 'poke holes' into the piece - to remove, brick by brick, elements from the composition that aren't vital to its purpose. Pixel2Life.com: Latest 20 Tutorials
When the Prison Commission discussed the virtues of parole it invoked ideas of mercy and clemency.
Prophets is a book-length poem with an ambitiously epic scope, a sensibility and language that is rooted in Jamaica and a work with a markedly religious overtone — not doctrinaire or even ideological, but openly exploring the day-to-day implications of Pentecostalism in Jamaica through a language that is sensual, that invokes myth and reggae and that is best described as risky and experimental. Poetry Terrors : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
But the gauzy Norman Rockwell normality he invoked won't persuade the electorate at a time of 10 percent unemployment, the Damocles sword that hangs over his head for 2012, when voters will get a chance to weigh in directly on his presidency, which he has largely placed in the hands of Ivy League meritocrats more concerned with protecting their wealthy coevals than the general public. Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference
Invoke God in times of trouble
We are admonishing those leaders around the world who would invoke war upon the Earth.
It provides an estimate of how much precipitation or temperature change must be invoked to explain the current net ablation of the glacier.
The first jurisdictional issue is, are the claims asserted in the Request For Arbitration within the scope of the arbitration clause EEMC has invoked?
In a number of places in his work, Andrews suggests that the erotic / amatory impulse has become overwhelmed by consumerist images and the desires they invoke and create.
Men who scabbed in the 1926 General Strike were never forgotten or forgiven even to this day and the very mention invokes anger among the old miners.
And those who support the penalty readily invoke the wishes of the grieving mother who cries out for the blood of her baby's killer.
Most relics were credited with miraculous healing powers, while some were also invoked as guardians of justice. The Times Literary Supplement
I'm embarrassed and humiliated to think that I actually live in a place where this sort of thing seems to be acceptable, and where some will invoke race to excuse it.
They often invoke the concept of divine immutability to oppose any change.
Although inflation was invoked to make the universe smooth, it can provide a certain degree of clumpiness.
The experimenter can save this text to a file and then invoke the NCS simulator on that file from the command line.
In an attempt to solve the present case, and similar cases of successive causes of incapacity according to some legal principle, a number of arguments have been invoked.
Explaining Elizabeth's rejection of him, he invoked the standards of newly popular sentimental literature saying.
The last thing I want to invoke is some crazy geek box office battle here. This week's cover: 'New Moon' Exclusive: Which of Robert Pattinson's costars does he find the most difficult? His hair. | EW.com
Such a response alone would achieve the compensatory effect needed to adjust the onset of emergence to latitude, but without the need to invoke genetic heterogeneity between populations.
But is it only a matter of time before the majesty of the criminal law is invoked? Times, Sunday Times
The fundamental change of circumstances, otherwise known as the clausula rebus sic stantibus, can be invoked to challenge the validity of treaties and lead to their termination. MyDD
She says "geez" and "heck" (twice) ( "I believe that I'm a heck of a lot better off putting my life in God's hands, and saying hey, you know, guide me") and invokes God, as in "thank God I don't have time to follow [blogs]. Whatever It Is, I’m Against It
Nineteen years old, her head shaven, surrounded by placards branding her a witch, idolatress, and abjured heretic, she invoked the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, and St Michael the Archangel. Jehanne la Pucelle
Moral indignation was invoked to support the violation.
To widen the valleys, however, it is necessary to invoke sediment transport processes that can remove the material from the valley floors, to redeposit it in adjacent lowlands.
The main reason the trade unionists failed in the U.K. was probably because their culture, one of an absolute, rationalist belief in egalitarianism, jibbed so badly with British culture it was bound to invoke the greatest antagonisms eventually. Matthew Yglesias » EFCA in International Comparison
The King's Men apparently heard about Pavier's planned collection and invoked the protection of authority.
Lucretius invoked the swerve (clinamen) not only to explain the creation of things but also to account for the freedom of the will. The First Quantum Cosmologist
Norrell's love of secrecy and Strange's attraction to the wilder edges of magic invoke dark and sinister happenings.
Many of those detectives still serve in the police department -- and face no adverse consequences when they periodically invoke their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer questions about their past interrogation practices. Locke Bowman: Chicago Police Miss the Message about the Cost of Wrongful Convictions
The Invoke as … button will call the service with the $format parameter indicating the data format to be returned (e.g., MSDN Blogs
It is unlikely that libel laws will be invoked.
We'll offer multi-touch, both-hands haptics which invokes the remarkable human sense of touch, sensitivity and meaning.
The morphologists' interpretation of evolution invoked adaptation only in the most abstract way.
Also patron of writers; she is invoked against eye trouble and hemorrhaging.
In order to do so, however, we must have the ability to perform remote procedure calls, such that a web application on one computer can invoke a subroutine or object method on another computer.
The fear in itself invoked age-old mythologies about the end of the world and gave religious cults the chance to enact rituals based on obscure prophecies.
Secretary Rumsfeld invoked Frederick the Great's dictum from General Principles of War: ‘What design would I be forming if I were the enemy?’
After 1792 the trappings of Roman republicanism became fashionable, with fasces and axes; and stern ancient patriots like Brutus, Scaevola, and Cato, familiar to all men of education, were much invoked.
As to Count II, the Defendant invokes his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination as to each and every allegation contained in Court II.
However, this dreadful purpose was prevented, partly by the interposition of his wife, whose aim was not the death but immurement of his daughter, and partly by the tears and supplication of the young gentlewoman herself, who protested, that, although the ceremony of the church had not been performed, she was contracted to Fathom by the most solemn vows, to witness which he invoked all the saints in heaven. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Innocents were being harassed through police at some places by framing them in false cases, PSA was invoked indiscriminately and NC workers were resorting to their old goonda tactics. 'Taliban presence - fear-psychosis for political purposes�� :Mehbooba
Dodd you lying, cheating sack of crap, are going down and you can invoke Ted Kennedy all you want, "ain't gonna help ya". A cage match in Connecticut
Generally our messy shoulder length hair and denims invoked hostility and disdain from our elders and betters.
In Bombay, Indian police arrest four men suspected of being members of Harakat al-Ansar, a Kashmiri separatist group that also invokes the deity in its works.
If the altar tracery was intended to invoke a chapel interior, it is probably significant that on Edward's gates a prominent feature is the repeated projecting oriel window, which reflects Edward's oratory immediately above.
Apparently all the government has to do is invoke the term ‘State Secrets’ and the lawsuit hits in impassable brick wall. Balloon Juice » 2006 » May
The commerce power invoked here by the Congress is a specific and plenary one authorized by the Constitution itself.
Two other arguments are invoked in support of the rule.
The ad suggests that if Obama wins the presidency and the Democrats have enough members to invoke cloture, the Democratic president’s proposals could pass through the Senate with minimal debate.
The edging of sea-shells along the Virgin's cloak is partially inspired by Clarke's work, and also refers specifically to St. Bernard's devotion to the Virgin as Star of the Sea; the saint is thought to be the first to have invoked the Virgin under this title. New Illustration: The St. Bernard Triptych, Part I
While Colorado's mountainous terrain offers innumerable beautiful sights that leave one longing for more and never satiated, its magnitude of awe and grandeur also invoke a humbling effect on mankind.
He invoked the law that would save him
It was enough that the rules invoked were imposed on all citizens for the protection of public order.
Meanwhile, the energy bounds (assuming bounded energy) now give so that there is now a logarithmically wide window of opportunity for nonlinear behaviour at high frequencies. from (9), but we can do a little bit better if we invoke the heuristic of equipartition of energy, which states that the kinetic portion of the energy is roughly in balance with the potential portion What's new
This is true, but these values are not peculiar to Britain, and it is hard to see why we have to become patriots in order to invoke them.
Record of an astral contact describing the use of the Enochian Temple to invoke the cacodemons of the Enochian system.
A Tory government again invoked emergency powers, against striking rail workers.
They invoke their particular (and often overlapping, and indeed she was one of his) gods and plunge out of downscale teenage bedrooms, brandishing shards of imagery as peculiarly-shaped as prison shivs.
The morphologists' interpretation of evolution invoked adaptation only in the most abstract way.
CICS will look into the WSBind file for the name of the conversion program to be invoked.
And there would be a filibuster of the “amendments” (ie the separate bill), but the Senate is going to invoke reconciliation, a procedure applicable to certain budgetary provisions that the filibuster does not apply to. The Volokh Conspiracy » House Democratic Leaders Drop “Deem and Pass”
Johnson invoked race in his ads, claiming to speak for African Americans broadly.
Also patron of healers; she is invoked against miscarriages.
But the two kinds of doubt invoke quite different doxastic attitudes.
You invoke the basic, primeval instincts inherent in all animals.
Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked. Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."
Their sacred dance is performed to invoke ancient gods.
Social ostracism from the family of nations with all that it would involve would be the sufficient penalty, so sufficient that it would never have to be invoked against any of those who resorted to the court. The Supreme Court of the World
A person might feel suspicious when you hand him a flower, for example, because he might think you're trying to invoke the very strong psychological phenomenon of "reciprocation": When someone gives you something or does something for you, you feel you must reciprocate. Slate Magazine
To use an an oft invoked comparison, at least I am not in a tree in Mozambique giving birth to a child as the swollen waters of the Limpopo River rage torrentially below.
And finally, formulaically, she invokes that neighborly, over-the-fence standard ‘common sense’ to pit us against those wacky liberal intellectuals.
Nowhere in the devotions are the saints invoked; they are commemorated before God, and He is thanked for them, but there is no ora pro nobis, not even, a prayer that God will hear their intercessions for us. The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes. Vol. I
When bisexuals, lesbians and gays use the word queer it is called reclamation, in the context in which you have invoked its usage it is called HOMOPHOBIA. Keep Talking Joe
I think it is best to start top-down and first look at how to invoke the rendering process, without discussing implementation specifications.
War imperils independent thought and speech; governments often invoke patriotism to enforce conformity.
Previously, dilatory tactics were out of order only after cloture had been invoked.
One year ago we brought you the Wall House, an elegant small-scale home that challenges the concept of walls with its delaminated construction and a flexible shell that invokes a sky-blown kite or a pristinely unfurled sail. WALL HOUSE: Build Your Own With Customizable Kit! | Inhabitat
He must have been very bitter and ready to invoke any means to attain his ends.
But instead of that he found himself hors'd up in a trice, though he appeal'd in vain to the priviledges of the University, pleaded adultus and invoked the mercy of the spectators. Andrew Marvell
Do we need to invoke some sort of mystic intuition?
Its circular shape invokes the tradition of associating circles with regeneration and wholeness.
When hedge funds invoked clauses in their investments that kept investors from taking their money out - so-called gating provisions - investors scrambled to raise money from other assets. NYT > Home Page
Such consistent regulations as “i before e except after c” and “if this is the beginning of the sentence, then there needs to be a capital letter” represent the rules that you invoke when you come across a pattern, such as a word containing the consecutive letters “e” and “i.” A Mind at a Time
Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even assimply becauseit goes on being written every day. Manhood for Amateurs: Summary and book reviews of Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon.
“It is,” the caulker said and spat once more and invoked more luck and joined the gang. The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber
We're all going to wear our Serious Face today, and discuss the degringolade that was the GURPS Infinite Worlds writing process, and I use the term "process" solely for the hollow laughter it will invoke in hackard. Kenneth Hite's Journal
All the people involved were then asked to sing in front of a panel to invoke stress. The Sun
Each time you invoke an external command, DOS must load the command from disk into memory.
In it the Epiklesis invokes the Holy Spirit over the assembled congregation, but not on the elements.
It sufficed to invoke the emergency aid exception that it was reasonable to believe that Fisher had hurt himself (albeit nonfatally) and needed treatment that in his rage he was unable to provide, or that Fisher was about to hurt, or had already hurt, someone else. JURIST - Paper Chase
Now, in fairness, we conservatives don't genuflect when someone invokes the Gray Lady as the ultimate authority in all matters temporal and spiritual. Ken Blackwell: "Gibbsy" Steps in it
Then, while Fred Elliot was speeding on a seven miles 'tramp round the shore of the lake to the surveyors' camp to invoke the aid of the only other white men in that remote part of the country, Hugh Jervois had made his way to the Maori _kainga_. Adventures in Many Lands
Clare's close resemblance to his elder sister invoked a deep dislike in him.
The Man with the Bagful of Boomerangs in the Bois de Boulogne" invokes the long tradition of French experimentalism. A Guidebook Through An Impossible Oeuvre
But the kings also increasingly invoked the authority of the papacy as a source of legitimacy rather then popular acclamation.
Dodd you lying, cheating sack of crap, are going down and you can invoke Ted Kennedy all you want, "ain't gonna help ya". A cage match in Connecticut
Smith has rolled out a carpet to welcome viewers to an apocalyptic skyscape that aptly invokes both Paradiso and Inferno.
Drawing a straight line from the Peasant Wars to Bolshevism, this view of fanaticism is today invoked by the West in order to demonize and psychologize any non-liberal politics. Archive 2009-08-01
We now invoke a deity when we recite our Pledge of Allegiance, and our currency clearly proclaims the basis of our laws; can compulsory adherence to Christianity be far behind?
While Senator Obama invokes “self reliance”, he calls on us to nurture our grievances and seek redress from a government powerful enough to give us all we want. Change, Hope, Unity and – Grievances
As a result, LinuxBIOS has a sequence of bootstraps, each bootstrap being invoked when additional CPU resources are activated.
Only at this time of year can you truly claim to have been touched by the cold magic that is invoked by the mere utterance of the word ‘Alaska’.
A new board is being set up with the power, so far uninvoked, to impose a settlement.
Other constructors known as delegating constructors will invoke the target constructor first, and then perform additional operations if necessary. CodeGuru.com
It was quick to invoke the Anzus Treaty after 9/11. The Yanks Are Welcome in Oz
Of course, Lasker had no precedents to invoke in the marketing of Kotex; but when it came time to introduce the next revolutionary cellucotton-based product for Kimberly-Clark, that new product - a disposable handkerchief called "Kleenex" - was purposefully positioned to draw on the halo effect of its older sibling. How they sell you what you don't understand
Romans invoked ancient Neolithic fetial law -- which looks a lot like our hallowed rituals (going back to the Mexican War) and the rehearsed run-up to Iraq. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The nativity, a scene that invokes images of a child in swaddling clothes, gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Here, once again, Quine invoked his metaphor of the web of belief, claiming that sentences are more or less revisable, depending upon how “peripheral” or “central” their position is in the web. The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
They were terrifying and unearthly, eerily bloodchilling as they invoked all evil spirits to possess them.
Claims that the woman invoked a loa to curse him with insanity are invalidated by a complete lack of proof that he ever became insane.
Another short-term solution to postal woes may be to invoke the "exigency" clause in postal law that would permit an increase in postage above the rate of inflation because of ImpeachBush
The ideal of freedom, its protection at home as well as its evangelization overseas, is repeatedly invoked to justify military interventionism, almost as if without a world vigilante constantly fanning the flames of liberty, asphyxiation would strangulate the planet's supposedly oppressed. Sunil Sharan: The West's Victim Complex
What image of the Spirit might be invoked for the next stage of the human pilgrimage?
Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked. Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."
He makes the telling point that the language of child protection offers one of the few ways our society has to restrict corporate behavior, even as it is invoked by moralists eager to impose their own ethical code on society as a whole.
Bach invokes these emotions within a structure so crystalline that we can't begin to fathom its perfection.
The UN threatened to invoke economic sanctions if the talks were broken off.
For some time, legal scholars invoked the dilemma of the ‘equal opportunity harasser’ as a hypothetical paradox.
Invoked by ordained priests through daily puja rituals, the Gods and angelic beings, or devas, in the inner, spiritual worlds are able to bless us through the Deity's image in the temple.
The solution is not to harden our hearts and invoke a crackdown. Times, Sunday Times
They are used to invoke a historical community that survived harsh conditions and now enjoys the benefits of unity and prosperity.
In ordinary life, explanations that invoke chance, necessity, or design cover every eventuality.
Here Taylor means that science restricts itself to naturalistic theories, and does not invoke the supernatural.
This, then, I pondered, was the end of it all, of life and strife and striving and love, the weary spirits of these long - gone ones to be invoked by fat old women and mangy sorcerers, the bones of them to be esteemed of collectors and betted on horse - races and ace-fulls or to be sold for cash and invested in sugar stocks. SHIN-BONES
The state Labor government has threatened to invoke emergency powers to stop the strike going ahead.
It was not examined seriously at West Point or the Army War College, and the U.S. military jettisoned just about anything to do with counterinsurgency—all those counterguerrilla, “little-war” tactics and doctrines so romantically invoked during the Kennedy years. Magic and Mayhem
Also patron of gardeners; he is invoked against hemorrhoids and syphilis.
But I take it that the kind of authoritativeness being invoked here is that of infallibility: 1 follows from the general teaching that the Church speaks infallibly when T satisfies one or more conditions for infallibility. Archive 2007-10-01
The wormhole is invoked as a way of describing the concrete geographies of positionality and their non-Euclidean relationship to the Earth's surface.
It is one thing to say that the powers of the civil courts can be invoked to enforce the criminal law.
This invoked a further outbreak of mass hysteria amongst the fleet.
Also patron of bus drivers, motorists, porters, travelers, truck drivers; he is invoked against nightmares.
Climate change, then, cannot account for proboscidean extinction "unless one were to invoke serial climatic change that perfectly tracks human global colonization."
Depending on the number of applications you need to deploy, you can invoke installapp target several times with different values of the project.name parameter.
Servings of the mocha beignet ($10) and the Earl Grey crème brûlée with lemon-lime sorbet ($10) are small enough to not invoke too much guilt. French Accents
Peti - to beg; limo - boundary; paliso - palings; vagi - to wander; alvoki - to invoke; sxajne - apparently; subite - suddenly; kvieta - quiet; advokato - lawyer. The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians
The image also invokes the caduceus - snake entwined staff, symbol of Aesculapius, Greco-Roman god of medicine, and carried by Mercury.
In contemporary frameworks, the rule of generalization invokes a singular term, the arbitrary constant introduced into the text.
In short, the government has met with such unalloyed success selling its hard line to an anxious electorate that it has rarely needed to invoke the spectre of absconding.

How To Use Invoke In A Sentence

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