Sentence examples for attempt to invoke from inspiring English sources

The opposition's attempt to invoke the constitution and subject the president to a recall referendum looks doomed.

And there are strained analogies that attempt to invoke the historical record to make a case for war against Iraq.

Water-park names seem like a hysterical attempt to invoke nature, almost as a magic incantation, in the service of something unnatural, maybe even antinatural.

Mr. Lazio's attempt to invoke Mario M. Cuomo, the Democratic governor who lost a bid for a fourth term in 1994, to discredit Mrs. Clinton also seems problematic.

But these actions can sometimes be justified in very particular cases, which we've seen various nations attempt to invoke with respect to Isis.

But it was the attempt to invoke the necessity defense — coupled with its use in the recent Massachusetts case — that has roused enthusiasm in progressive legal circles.

Elsewhere, there have even been distasteful attempts to invoke 9/11.

If another process attempts to invoke halt, the system call should be ignored and return immediately.

At times, politicians have attempted to invoke such exceptions for reasons of parochial interest or political expediency.

Mark Horton, an archeologist at the University of Bristol, dismissed the Druids' attempts to invoke the moral authority of Native Americans.

Reversing his position flies in the face of the Conservatives' alleged One Nation approach to social policy, which Nicky Morgan attempted to invoke last week.