Sentence examples for attempts to invoke from inspiring English sources

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.

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

"The Christian voting bloc is a force to contend with". Perry's previous attempts to invoke a higher power suggest that there are limits to the power of prayer.

But he also reacted angrily to what he considered phony attempts to invoke "national security" by officials who were really just trying to avoid embarrassment.

But the UK government, positioning itself as China's biggest friend in the west in order to win investment in the UK nuclear industry, blocked the EU's attempts to invoke the WTO rules.

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

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

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.