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"Invoke" in a Sentence (23 examples)
How do we invoke a response from the computer?
"Mary, I invoke my Jus Latii rights which means I don't have to do dishes tonight because of my Roman citizenship equivalency," said Tom. "What century do you think this is?" asked Mary. "And also stop drinking and do the dishes"
Let us invoke the gift of peace for the whole world, especially for those people who are suffering most because of ongoing conflicts.
Once Tom tried to invoke a demon, and he almost succeeded.
This is the wrong time to invoke patriotism.
In pots I try in vain to invoke the scents of childhood.
Invoke God in times of trouble.
"Kotodama" is Japanese for "word spirit or soul." I believe in it. The sounds of a particular language may invoke psychic power or energy. I believe that Esperanto has better "kotodama" than does English. Esperanto's sounds would empower the speaker. A specific language can be medicine, or it can be poison.
He or she has 30 days in which to invoke the protection of Section 37.9(g).
Could the US invoke NATO's Article 5 to attack North Korea?
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The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another drought.
Whatever the pressures that have invoked the Minister's diktat, the outcome is Gilbertian.
In May [1995], the court issued an interdict preventing the service withdrawal, pending consultation on the closure to passenger traffic of three short stretches of railway around Glasgow and its hinterland that were only used by the Fort William Sleeper - and for which BR had failed to invoke standard closure procedures.
After marriage, the man had anciently (but this was anterior to Christianity) the power of life and death over his wife. She could invoke no law against him; he was her sole tribunal and law.
The acquisition of a useless part can hardly be said to raise an organism in the natural scale; and in the case of the imperfect, closed flowers, above described, if any new principle has to be invoked, it must be one of retrogression rather than of progression; and so it must be with many parasitic and degraded animals.
It is easier to invoke or to deplore democracy than to say exactly what it is.
In certain Christian circles, invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.
He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]
This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.
Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.
Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.
[…]the selling price and cost of a particular item are derived by the system through a table lookup and assigned to the item at invoking time.
C++ lets you invoke an operator function either by calling the function or by using the overloaded operator with its usual syntax.
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