Sentence examples for invoking from high-quality English sources.

• The Dutch initiative, invoking the U.N.

• He began by invoking the Declaration of Independence:

• And some think the bar has been lowered for invoking emergency powers in the future.

• It can be a very transformative experience invoking a combination of fear, fascination, and cathartic release.

• (In her own work, Opie eschewed the square for years, to avoid invoking Robert Mapplethorpe, her predecessor in exalting erotic deviance through photography.)

• Democrats filed a lawsuit earlier this year demanding the disclosure of those filings, invoking a federal law designed to give Congress access to any tax return.

• The New York NewsGuild called the decision to publish Cotton’s piece “an irresponsible choice”, noting that “invoking state violence disproportionately hurts Black and brown people.

• Mr Rajoy was slammed from all sides as he tried to contain the Catalan uprising following an illegal referendum, eventually invoking emergency powers to rule the region from Madrid.

Use invoking in a sentence.

• …the tenth book of the Laws, by invoking the analogy of a circular motion, which combines change with the retention of a fixed centre, he explained how deity could exemplify both absoluteness and change.

• Biden Jr. on Wednesday for invoking two Southern segregationist senators by name as he defended himself over accusations of being “old-fashioned” and fondly recalled the “civility” of the Senate in the 1970s and 1980s.

• It's obviously not an apples to apples comparison, but can you compare and contrast Trump's "enemies of the people" rhetoric and generally obnoxious posture towards the media with Obama invoking the Espionage Act to investigate two inconvenient reporters?

• "The Defense Production Act was designed for defense industry products with a single supplier, often with purely domestic production chains, and invoking it may do more harm than good in sectors such as pharmaceuticals and medical equipment," Murphy said.

• Barr has tried to downplay Trump’s open enthusiasm for deploying military force in American cities, denying reports that the president wanted to respond to demonstrators outside the White House by invoking the Insurrection Act and mobilizing 10,000 troops.

• Mandia called for a "strong policy and international cooperation to shut down ransomware," which he said "will in fact be invoking punishment on the very people that probably did" the SolarWinds attacks that hit government agencies and thousands of companies.

• Facebook has removed dozens of ads from Donald Trump's re-election campaign invoking Nazi imagery against political opponents while he has publicly sparred with the US Supreme Court and his ex-national security adviser John Bolton over allegations in a new book.

• Republican Senator Ted Cruz attacked Ms Warren on Twitter, invoking Donald Trump's slur "Pocahontas" to mock her allegedly fabricated claim to Native American ancestry to advance her career, though there's no evidence to suggest that it benefited her professionally.

invoking sentence examples

• The distinction between ‘strictly designates’ and ‘suggests’ is most plausibly understood as invoking the distinction between semantics and pragmatics, or the distinction between that which is conveyed as a matter of convention or as a matter of conversational dynamics:

• Invoking an idiomatic expression — nagai mono ni makareru — on people’s tendency to follow authority, she said: “If the government, which is in the strongest position, demonstrates” the importance of giving women more opportunities in the workplace, “private companies would follow suit.”

• “The president has moved beyond invoking the obvious racial slanders of 50 years ago — clichés like black neighborhoods ‘on fire’ — and is now invoking the white supremacist mentality of the early 1900s, when anyone who looked ‘not white’ could be labeled as unwelcome in America.”

• In May, the president issued an executive order "preventing online censorship", and accused social media platforms of invoking "inconsistent, irrational, and groundless justification" to "censor" or "restrict Americans' speech" while his administration was simultaneously targeting political opponents on the opposite end of the political spectrum.