Sentence examples for cannot be invoked from inspiring English sources

Article 50 simply cannot be invoked without a full debate and vote in parliament.

Some sort of general breakdown of social mores cannot be invoked as an explanation, since homicides fell as suicides rose.

But what happens when evidence of racial bias isn't present, when the specific protections of the V.R.A. cannot be invoked?

However, legal experts the Guardian has consulted said that this privilege applies only to communications between husband and wife; it cannot be invoked to cover events Kristin Armstrong is alleged to have witnessed.

Hence, topographical reasons for this area being persistently cold-based cannot be invoked.

One consequence of it is that the notion cannot be invoked to explain behaviour.

That test was designed to prevent pornographers, for example, becoming media owners - but it cannot now be invoked in the case of the Murdoch merger.

Indeed, as soon as multiple individuals are involved in making decisions for their common cause, one or other method of collective decision-making cannot but be invoked.

Still, some of these reactions may be due to the strong stigma and shame associated with suicide, in which case these reactions cannot, without logical circularity, be invoked in arguments that suicide is wrong because it produces these psychological reactions (Pabst Battin 1996, 68 69).

If the parties cannot agree, Section 4(f) could be invoked.

Collectively, the distribution of ADH1B*47His allele frequency in the populations studied cannot be explained by random genetic drift, and recent selection needs to be invoked.