Sentence examples for avoid invoking from inspiring English sources

The word "war" is one that Kenyans go to great lengths to avoid invoking.

Dr. Mariano does mention that to avoid invoking the amendment, Mr. Clinton received spinal rather than general anesthesia when he needed surgery to repair a torn quadriceps tendon.

Several union leaders praised that approach, because it showed that the administration was seeking to heed union concerns and avoid invoking the Taft-Hartley Act.

"If there is another hung parliament after 7 May, virtually all parties will want to avoid invoking the act, and so risking another general election..

The announcement follows closely on Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.'s speech last month on criminal justice reform, which included an order to prosecutors to avoid invoking mandatory minimum sentences when charging low-level drug offenders.

As the president's legal counsel, Albert Gonzales, wrote in a memorandum on Friday, a decision to avoid invoking the Geneva Conventions "preserves flexibility" as Mr. Bush conducts the war.

Even as they avoided invoking Mr. Bush's name, today's speakers repeatedly inched closer to urging N.R.A. members to vote for him, if only to defeat Mr. Gore.

He relinquished presidential power to the Vice President for eight hours in a similar procedure as outlined in the 25th Amendment, which he specifically avoided invoking.

He notes that Thompson deliberately avoided invoking natural selection as an explanation, and left history, whether of species or of an individual's life, out of his account.

We have not tested the perceptual and behavioural mechanisms underlying frequency-dependent foraging, therefore we have avoided invoking search image formation as the specific ultimate cause of rare form advantage.

37 The Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test is a non-parametric approach that avoids invoking an assumption of a common odds ratio (that is, proportionality) across all cut points on the ordinal outcome scale.