Sentence examples for Were invoked from inspiring English sources

Mutilation and death penalties rarely were invoked.

Various alternative strategies were invoked.

Two laws were invoked against them.

— that were invoked by occupiers at the refuge.

These tragedies were invoked as "the Tennants' Curse".

Security concerns were invoked; no one even contacted its curator.

And we cooperated closely with the Russians, including through the channels that were invoked.

Professor Scarf's mathematical insights and formidable mental dexterity were invoked in more than one Nobel citation.

Data mining tasks were invoked to tackle this problem in order to extract the interesting knowledge.

But no such prosaic reasons were invoked by Mr. Saint Laurent to explain his retirement.

(It's worse than it sounds: the words "intense" and "brooding" were invoked as evidence of similarity).