Sentence examples for before invoking from inspiring English sources
Rush wasted no time before invoking Obama's name.
On Monday, Montesinos testified for more than three hours before invoking his right to remain silent.
The Labour motion only requires her to publish a plan before invoking article 50.
Tenanes might want to think twice before invoking the notion of the unforeseen.
("Iraq, got that, now he gunning for Iran," he raps before invoking North Korea).
"It's going against the classic stereotype of what a quarterback is," Dungy said before invoking Matt Leinart.
The court had never before invoked Black's Law Dictionary for a conclusive determination of the meaning of a federal statute, Justice Ginsburg observed.
Senator John McCain, musing that "we've seen this movie before", invoked the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon and the succession of Vice-President Gerald Ford – who, like Pence, was a churchgoing conservative who earned his spurs in the House.
"He had before invoked all the connotations of home, only to leave it," wrote Cleveland sports columnist Bill Livingston the next day, in a piece entitled "By rejecting his hometown team, LeBron James earns his slot on the [Art] Modell list of shame".
Despite its origin, the Antiquities Act has never before been invoked by the indigenous peoples of this continent, whose cultural relics the law was intended to protect.
The "notwithstanding clause" – which has never before been invoked in Ontario, and is rarely used throughout Canada – is widely viewed as a legal "safety valve", allowing legislators to bypass perceived judicial overreach.
