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Sentence Examples The story is easy to take, the period is atmospherically invoked, and the acting of all the principal characters is well-done. The sea bream, or tai, is a favored dish for celebratory occasions in Japan and a commonly invoked emblem of good fortune. This also limits the cursedness of the mobile units purported to contain biological weapons, so often invoked as uninspectable. Reynolds invoked the genius of the Venetian painters like Titian to support his argument, and also Rubens. 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. It invoked religious beliefs not only to understand different histories but also to change it. This marks the beginning of a new kind of diplomacy in which the best of heaven is being invoked. It can be placed anonymously and is usually invoked by a tohunga, an expert practitioner, who can also lift it. Ted said thanks for the evening and Mary crossed herself and invoked some sort of biblical curse. The fact remains that brute force is boastfully invoked alike in the internal affairs and foreign policies of the totalitarian state. This article describes the steps to change the default image editor application, which is invoked from the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Unsurprisingly, when Taiwan invoked an arbitration clause, the Swiss courts gave them best. As a result, LinuxBIOS has a sequence of bootstraps, each bootstrap being invoked when additional CPU resources are activated. Generally our messy shoulder length hair and denims invoked hostility and disdain from our elders and betters. But Mr Bashir invoked California's shield law which protects journalists from having to disclose their sources. Whenever a far-away or long-dead culture can be invoked, a mystery or an entire mystical philosophy can be generated. Senate Minority Leader Senator Harry Reid invoked Rule 21 that forced senators to close the doors and operate in a shroud of secrecy. They were terrifying and unearthly, eerily bloodchilling as they invoked all evil spirits to possess them. The only possible operation is to read data when Read-Only Mode is invoked. Throughout his argument Lord Kingsland repeatedly invoked the well-recognised EC principles of legal certainty and proportionality. Show More Sentences The King's Men apparently heard about Pavier's planned collection and invoked the protection of authority. However Stephen Matthews lost some support when he invoked the women's suffrage movement. The question is the wisdom of proceeding without U.N. authority where we have invoked the resolutions of the U.N. as the basis for an attack. The milder and more beneficent forces of nature were addressed as female deities and invoked with prayers. It is not, however, only a matter of when the Spirit is invoked, but how the action of the Spirit is understood in baptism and in confirmation. It becomes, in one, his mistress, a deity to be invoked, and the source of poetic madness. But when the Goddess was invoked by the priestess, I felt what I had always experienced as the Holy Spirit come down. What image of the Spirit might be invoked for the next stage of the human pilgrimage? Now it is rare to see his name in print unless it is being invoked as shorthand for corrupted innocence or curdled dreams. In the best poems, the personal pronoun is invoked unapologetically and effectively. When the Prison Commission discussed the virtues of parole it invoked ideas of mercy and clemency. St. Aidan, because he is said to have miraculously saved a stag from hounds, is invoked as protector of hunted animals. It is one thing to say that the powers of the civil courts can be invoked to enforce the criminal law. The concept of social costs, as typically invoked, completely disembodies and impersonalizes costs. But the kings also increasingly invoked the authority of the papacy as a source of legitimacy rather then popular acclamation. The potential for skateboarders to injure themselves has invoked the insurance industry's wrath in the form of overcautious safety requirements. Golden light flooding up the valley creates the sense of the sublime so often invoked by Bierstadt. There he closed his eyes and invoked his magic, changing himself into a tree stump so that no one would recognize him. A Tory government again invoked emergency powers, against striking rail workers. It was enough that the rules invoked were imposed on all citizens for the protection of public order. Show More Sentences I struggle to recall those rare occasions when it has been invoked against a non-Arab state. These cases are the equitable counterpart of common law cases where the principle of res ipsa loquitur is invoked. Raising his arms, the sky elf invoked a powerful dust devil with his magical control of the wind. It provides an estimate of how much precipitation or temperature change must be invoked to explain the current net ablation of the glacier. And the God who is invoked in justification of these is a God I wish to have nothing to do with. I have invoked Shelley as an epigraph because he identified the dangers of hubris and vanity when desire is exhausted and over-idealized. In New York, a wall-size photographic installation in the entranceway to the show invoked this constellation of characters. James's receptivity to popular culture is sometimes invoked as proof of his far-flung intellect. They invoked the elements and the ancient Welsh gods who their family had worshipped for millennia. Previously, dilatory tactics were out of order only after cloture had been invoked. Explaining Elizabeth's rejection of him, he invoked the standards of newly popular sentimental literature saying. It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs. First he invoked the doctrine of non est factum and alleged that the charge was void. And the inherent jurisdiction is sometimes invoked by the prothonotary, is it not, as it was in Ziems, I think. They used to be frequently invoked as an inspiring example of heroic resistance to injustice and oppression. Seasonal water-table variation is invoked to account for the formation of characteristic gley soils. They invoked the Armageddon option and started threatening to table a vote of confidence in the Government if the rebels defeated the proposal. Johnson invoked race in his ads, claiming to speak for African Americans broadly. The solution lay in an interpretation of reality which invoked the notion of absolute spirit, or Geist. The need for the dark energy has been invoked by a need to explain the acceleration of distant galaxies. Show More Sentences Once a rather lissome belle of a teacher invoked in me a vivid fantasy that never leaves me to this day. The fundamental theorem of calculus becomes almost obvious once the nonstandard terminology is invoked and interpreted in its full literality. Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent. He invoked a New York to come like the New York that once was, before chaos and crime gave liberalism a bad name. Its blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty, is frequently invoked and just as frequently misused. The juror is said to have invoked common sense in the face of the statutes as codified by the State of Illinois. 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 first jurisdictional issue is, are the claims asserted in the Request For Arbitration within the scope of the arbitration clause EEMC has invoked? He also invoked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to reject the requests. A recent show of two sculptures and nine wall reliefs invoked Penone's past with some humble, nontraditional materials, yet presented them in decidedly conventional formats. Naturally, much of this book stems from the writers' residencies in Menton and the spirit of Katherine Mansfield is often invoked, explicitly or implicitly. Frantically twisting the leafy herbs into various intricate shapes of power, he adorned her chest, pointing them so that all invoked power would be directed to the amulet. The spirit of populism is unlike the specter of communism famously invoked by Marx and Engels. More clumsily, fireworks stand in for the Big Bang and a potato and peas are invoked to explain relativity. All the rites de passage, birth, puberty, marriage, and death gave occasion for liturgical celebration, in which divine protection was surely invoked. At which point the traditional antinomies of lyric and epic may be invoked only as skirmishers in the move from the discrete poem to the interconnected book. That idea is often invoked in regards to the tricks memory plays, but I wonder how it might come into play in other ways. In popular behavioural science, evolution is routinely invoked to explain a vast array of behaviours, physiological characteristics, demographic patterns, and mortality data. When a JSP is first invoked, it is automatically turned into a servlet. 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. Show More Sentences In attempting to make a broad-ranging, effective contemporary film, the moviemakers invoked images and qualities of other genres and times and created a hybrid product. She invoked the image of a mushroom cloud over the United States. Internal factionalism is unlikely to reach the level of Yugoslavia after the fall of the communists, since US air power can be invoked to stop mass slaughter. I think there's a popular advertising slogan which can be invoked here. No one thinks that the demonstrative ideal can plausibly be invoked in connection with empirical knowledge, which includes all of natural science. In others, the diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia was invoked at a late stage of the disease, when necrotizing pneumonia or lung abscess has developed. There is even something called a New York minute, which lasts about two seconds and is constantly invoked to indicate the hectic pace of life here. Time and again he invoked his own experience as authority for his doctrines, and suggested that teachings not validated by personal experience were of little value. Shift has invoked Tash, a vulture-headed demonic power, only because he is too purblind actually to believe in him. 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. The copybook usually shows how the word is pronounced, accented and syllabized, and how standard spelling rules are invoked to determine its conventional spelling. This invoked a further outbreak of mass hysteria amongst the fleet. What they disagree on is where perfectionist ideals should be invoked. Various combinations of these processes are invoked to account for the range of geochemical and petrographic features in tale-alkaline continental margin volcanic arc suites. 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. Finally, he invoked the Holy Spirit directly for aid and understanding. And once you have invoked your spirit to sing with you, they invoke those unheard notes within you which is the form of communication with other spirits. Since the attack, Canadian authorities have invoked the threat of terrorism to justify a clamp down on protests that extends well beyond Kananaskis County. As I have been arguing here, middle-class knowledge and ignorance are invoked strategically and polyphonically in ways that answer many needs at once. He called four foul throw-ins, invoked the six-second rule against a keeper who had just come on as a substitute and found himself being exceptionally whistle happy. Show More Sentences Various pretexts, excuses, and complications have been invoked over the years, but essentially this is a matter of politically motivated exclusion. The wormhole is invoked as a way of describing the concrete geographies of positionality and their non-Euclidean relationship to the Earth's surface. In common with other work on the western UK basins system, igneous underplating is invoked as the principal mechanism driving the epeirogenic uplift. The massive vascularity of the big blood vessels was invoked by her strong fingers in their apt progress. This expanded on interpretations by Carl Jung, which were later invoked by Joseph Campbell. These allow scripts to specify functions that should be invoked asynchronously when certain events occur. Fleetwood Mac, TLC, and Kate Bush are frequently invoked for comparison. There is no way of falling into or GOTOing a procedure. The procedure can only be invoked by name as a subroutine. Once all speeches on a motion have concluded, or Closure invoked, the motion may be put to a vote. The lawsuit states that the stop-loss order was invoked after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the climate of an ongoing threat. As Heard later explained, the British government seldom invoked its powers over Canadian legislation. Something else must be invoked to account for the bloodlessness of investors and entrepreneurs during recent years. In the asymmetries of this relationship, the black body is invoked and hierarchized by the claims of universal consciousness. Gough's pioneering article, which was the first time poststructuralism was invoked in English-language environmental education literature. However, when researchers stripped the rodlets from the outside of the cells, the exposed spores invoked a robust immune response. Pragmatics is also invoked in studying the language of slave law and contracts. However, during the founding meetings of the new organization, this Greek word was not invoked, so this explanation may have been imagined later. Rochester's venality led to an early death, and he was later frequently invoked as the exemplar of a Restoration rake. Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked by the Church under the titles of Advocate, Auxiliatrix, Adjutrix, and Mediatrix. The procedure is invoked by a motion to commit to the committee of the whole, or simply to go into a committee of the whole. Show More Sentences The mandates invoked the compulsory jurisdiction of the Permanent Court of International Justice in the event of any disputes. This provision was discussed during the 1967 Detroit riot, but was not invoked. The clerical opponents of the Reformation systematically invoked Galfridian prophecy to justify their resistance. As a symbol of resistance towards Spanish the name of Moctezuma has been invoked in several indigenous rebellions. Whatever factor is invoked to explain the increase in asthma must also be capable of explaining other outbreaks of atopy. The Lockean concept of the social contract was invoked in the United States Declaration of Independence. According to Pliny, garlic and onions were invoked as deities by the Egyptians at the taking of oaths. These five elements are invoked during many magical rituals, notably when consecrating a magic circle. Some nostalgically invoked a glorious industrial past or the bygone British Empire to cope with their newfound personal economic insecurity. When the debate concludes, or when the Closure is invoked, the motion in question is put to a vote. Columba is historically revered as a warrior saint, and was often invoked for victory in battle. After the ship set sail Dionysus invoked his divine powers, causing vines to overgrow the ship where the mast and sails had been. In response France invoked the terms of the Auld Alliance, her ancient bond with Scotland. Saint Andrew is invoked to ward off wolves, who are thought to be able to eat any animal they want on this night, and to speak to humans. On 13 September, for the first time ever, NATO invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. In the Orthodox Church, an Ecumenical council is the supreme authority that can be invoked to resolve contested issues of the faith. The church teaches that through consecration invoked by a priest the sacrificial bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. Prime Minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 on 29 March 2017 to formally initiate the withdrawal process. The tracheid-long scalariform-short simple vessel element transformation series has been invoked over and over at many phylogenetic scales. The list can be invoked from any file-related dialog using additional buttons Actual File Folders places in the caption of the dialog window. Show More Sentences Pioneers of town planning, such as Thomas Coglan Horsfall and Patrick Geddes called Ruskin an inspiration and invoked his ideas in their writings. Vasco da Gama immediately invoked his high viceregent powers to impose a new order in Portuguese India, replacing all the old officials with his own appointments. In my own work I have invoked chiasmic depth as thin relief. The Coriolis force and sea ice surface tilt have also been invoked. After the rise of the hero cult, gods and heroes constitute the sacral sphere and are invoked together in oaths and prayers which are addressed to them. The Articles continue to be invoked today in the Anglican Church. The king of Zhou at this time invoked the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to legitimize his rule, a concept that would be influential for almost every succeeding dynasty. Edward also invoked Magna Carta in advancing his cause, arguing that the reformers had taken matters too far and were themselves acting against Magna Carta. These different optimizations have to be invoked in a specific sequence to generate controls that optimize the network revenue and maintain business constraints on the output. At first Martin Luther King Jr. invoked Booker as a moral authority for King's ethic of love and his posture of passive resistance to white hatred. According to David Allen Harvey, Voltaire often invoked racial differences as a means to attack religious orthodoxy, and the Biblical account of creation. As of 2016, eight member states had ever invoked derogations. Painting is invoked by Beecroft and her apologists to gussy up what is really lame performance, which succeeds because it's one night only, so most people never see it. There is no ground in the condemnation and death of Priscillian for the charge made against the Church of having invoked the civil authority to punish heretics. Examples from Classical Literature The Roman god of wine, frequently invoked in the garnishment of Latin and Italian speech. The only case where it is often invoked in the human race is in miscegenation. Hence the hair of the deceased was consecrated to her, and her name invoked at funerals. In the Litany of Aengus the culdee we find hundreds of foreign saints invoked, each grouped according to their nation. But they were especially incited by envoys from egesta, who had come to Athens and invoked their aid more urgently than ever. Phoenician technical skill was invoked for the furtherance of both objects. They were invoked at festivals, and three cups were drunk by those who feasted in honour of Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia. A decree of Prince Philip, in 1553, was its gis and was constantly invoked. If Dostoiwsky ever invoked a muse, it must have been the muse of hypochondria. I could not be disrated, as I was only a cabin-boy, but a substitutionary penalty was invoked against me. He invoked the aid even of those Ainos who dwelt in the land of the Japanese. When it tries to do so by sumptuary legislation, nothing but mischief is invoked. This is the sanction invoked to legitimise every adventure in invasion and colonisation. The idea of telegony, the persistent influence of the first mating, may be invoked to explain this discrepancy. Shaman after shaman, under his totem pole, had unavailingly invoked his tomaowash incantations to destroy her power. St. Anthony was called the patron of mariners, and therefore his aid was especially invoked. Constipation is usually invoked as a cardinal factor in the genesis of typhlitis. The help of one of the sons of Clovis had been unwisely invoked for this operation. It was hard to understand why a potent political influence should be invoked in order to secure the tapping of a water main. For these losses Mr. pacifico claimed restitution, and invoked the protection and aid of the British government in securing it. Show More Sentences As a world-force this band of Pan-Islamism had failed because it had been invoked by the wrong people for a wrong purpose. Machiavelli, at the end of the principe, when the tragedy of Italy was almost accomplished, invoked it. In lieu of the biprism, reflectors may be invoked to double the original source of light. Furthermore, Senate Rules also allowed cloture to be invoked only on a bill being debated on the floor of the Senate. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favorable winds. Prayers were made to the Supreme Being and Liberty was invoked. No doubt he had invoked the help of the Holy Spirit to subdue the anger I had roused in him, and now believed he had forgiven me once more. I was clutched by the icy hand of the awful phantom he had invoked. The Western spirit must be invoked for new and nobler achievements. She swore, and invoked all the gods of the nether world, who are called Titans, to witness. Rhazes, Haly-Abbas, and Avicenna were universally invoked and explained. And having recourse to pranayama, she invoked the Maker of day. We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother spirit is invoked. The gradient steepened, the snow was hard, and the axe was invoked. Bel is also invoked in connexion with Anu as a granter of victory. And the long wooden veranda that he had invoked did not unify the trinity. Rudra, the god of the storm, is repeatedly invoked in the Rigveda. George, Erasmus, Pantaleon, and vitus were invoked for their protection. And he invoked the whole Pantheon to witness his self-denunciation. The speech referred to nothing substantially new and entailed points which invoked even the dismay and the remonstration of the United Nation Secretary General. Show More Sentences A baneful promiscuous intercourse of the sexes is hereby avoided, and virtue, without being damorously invoked, is, as it were, unconsciously practised. Upon this, the superior authority of the housekeeper was invoked, and Mrs. According to lawmakers, under the state constitution provisional orders can only be invoked by the governor and that the commissioner's decision is therefore unlawful. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of invoked? Words that rhyme with invoked What is the adverb for invoked? What is the adjective for invoked? What is the noun for invoked? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words invoke invoicing invoices invoiced invoice amounting invoice invoker invokes invoking involucel involucral involucre 7-letter Words Starting With i in inv invo invok invoke