Sentence examples for idea invoked from inspiring English sources

Some of this sounds familiar; for decades we have regarded science as crucial to global competitiveness, an idea invoked as recently as in Barack Obama's campaign.

What history?Sep 27th 2007 Bagehot: The sadism strategySep 27th 2007 The politics of a bank run: Labour's moment of perilSep 20th 2007His populist rhetoric and tick-box pledges did, however, fuel speculation as to whether he would call an early election, an idea invoked by successive polls putting Labour comfortably ahead of its Conservative rivals.

Labour's Denis MacShane has an idea: invoke the curse of Cameron.

The chamberlain forcefully dismisses the idea, invoking the "humiliation" of 1924, a reference to the Immigration Act of 1924, which excluded Asian immigrants from entering the United States.

But Mr. Florio called the plan "a colossally bad idea," invoking Franklin D. Roosevelt to warn that it would generate millions of dollars for Wall Street brokers while placing elderly Americans at the whims of a volatile stock market.

Another way of explaining the same idea invokes the notion of a pivotal quantity.

Although this idea invokes elements of group selection, a controversial theory of evolutionary biology, it is being proposed to explain evolution of prokaryotic populations, about which very little evolutionary theory has been solidly established, particularly outside of the walls of the test tube.

These ideas invoke a notion of implicit definition that is quite different from the one under consideration here.

Collective conflict is hardly a new idea — James Madison invoked it in the Federalist Papers, defining factions as citizens "united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community".

Although their disciplinary status as well as their relation to each other is rarely discussed in depth, now and again the idea is invoked that both approaches represent 'two sides of the same coin'.

Ideas are invoked but not fully developed: Jimmy pulls off a phony-baloney P.R. stunt; he gets into elder law and plans to sue an old-age home.