Sceptics doubt the effectiveness of DNA matching, and invoke fears of false matches and planted samples.
The spiritual powers that the arts name and invoke are local and vary from group to group of the population.
Like the tribal masks that transform the wearer and invoke ancestral spirits, they seem to be endowed with supernatural power.
It's impossible to look a dying patient in the eye and invoke the merits of redemptive suffering.
The texts are from Psalms 149 and 150, and invoke praise through dance, through timbrel, through harp.
All three plays are set among the rural middle class, end in a gunshot and invoke Hamlet.
Larger, slightly later paintings introduce vessels — cups and saucers, wine glasses, pitchers — and invoke traditional still-life setups with drapery and mirrors.
Mormon fathers still, Mr. Bowman writes, "lay their hands on the heads of their children and invoke the power of God to seal blessings upon their heads".
The inevitable political response to such atrocities is to introduce tougher counter-terrorism policies and invoke rhetoric about winning wars and destroying our enemies.
His followers dream of reviving an Islamic caliphate, and invoke Islamic teaching to justify atrocities against non-Muslims and Muslims alike.
Two actor-speakers (Jonathan Smoots and Paul Hurley) exchange snippets of biblical doom and invoke the Grand Inquisitor, Dostoyevsky's literary indictment of organized religion.
