Sentence examples for invocation for from inspiring English sources

In 2009, he gave the invocation for the opening event of the inauguration of President Obama.

In 1992, he became the first Muslim to deliver the invocation for the United States Senate.

A cheer went up immediately; this was not an unusual invocation, for him or his fans.

Some close observers approved Mr. Obama's explicit invocation, for the first time, of Israel's 1967 borders as the starting place for talks with the Palestinians.

Montego Joe, who leads his own Caribbean-Creole music group, acted as the "elder" for the first event and began the performance with an invocation for healing.

It all adds up to a strange and moving invocation for the international black diaspora to discover its own histories, so long kept hidden from official records.

With no mimetic elements, the basket dance of the Tewa Pueblo rites includes invocations for plant growth and for the transmission of the gift of human life.

This is because such flagging may be easily identified in the co-text whereas 'Afford' type invocations (for which I use the label 'Evoke) instead rely primarily (although not exclusively) on assumptions or projections of shared knowledge between interlocutors.

The Book of Leviathan provides four invocations for Satan, lust, compassion, and destruction.

An "Invocation to Satan" as well as three invocations for the three types of ritual are given.

As a result of his perceived martyrdom, poetic invocations for class struggle, and desire to create the consciousness of a "new man" driven by moral rather than material incentives, he has evolved into a quintessential icon of various leftist-inspired movements.