Sentence examples for familiar invocation from inspiring English sources

Much of his speech is familiar invocation of the just war doctrine: laying out the brutality of Isis, as if the eight British jets we're sending could put an end to it; asking "what message would [not acting] send?", as if the self-image of the British state were worth a single innocent life.

"A Better Tomorrow" ventures into slightly obvious inspirational talk ("Never let go of your mind, it is a terrible thing to waste, to lose, but it's very hard to find," GZA raps, on "Never Let Go"); what sounds like an unironic sample of "Feelings," on "Felt"; and, on "Miracle," an invocation of familiar modern rock that has an unmiraculous effect.

And because everyone agrees that financial markets are highly competitive, Mr. Gramm's invocation of the familiar invisible-hand theory persuaded many other lawmakers.

Most mock-epics begin with an invocation to the muse and use the familiar epic devices of set speeches, supernatural interventions, and descents to the underworld, as well as infinitely detailed descriptions of the protagonist's activities.

Concurrent think-aloud protocols were analysed to derive measures of the rate of schema-driven analogising (i.e., the recognition-primed application of abstract experiential knowledge that could afford a design solution to a familiar problem type), and case-driven analogising (i.e., the invocation of a concrete prior design problem whose solution elements could be mapped onto the current problem).

Allen and his core group lay down Afrobeat's familiar loping grooves, and Haitian musicians weigh in with call-and-response chants and invocations from the vodou tradition.

There follows suitable but ritual outrage, along with demands for a tightening of America's gun laws – to be met by the familiar, well-honed arguments of National Rifle Association ("guns don't kill people, people do"), and invocations of the price to be paid (30,000 people killed each year by guns, half murders, half suicides) if God's own USA is to remain a free country.

Rick Warren gave his invocation.

A supremely unsettling invocation.

RICK WARREN Delivering invocation.

The title, "Invocation".