Sentence examples for invoke it to from inspiring English sources

Long after the Bates opinion became public, Chase continued to wave it in Lincoln's face, telling the president to invoke it to promote equal rights in the South.

Since § 4(b) expressly deals with 'service,' the FPC may invoke it to deal with curtailment programs, whether or not it could also invoke § 7 for that purpose.

The interpretation of that law, as well as the question of whether individuals may invoke it to sue public agencies, has been much disputed.

But where pro-life writers like myself tend to raise this point in order to cast doubt on the comforting-but-dubious idea that liberal policies will inevitably lower the abortion rate, Cahn and Carbone invoke it to cast doubt on the idea that one can simultaneously be opposed to abortion and in favor of stable two-parent families.

No young American wants to believe that his or her leader and role model would fabricate an entire war for political gain and then invoke it to further policies that not only fail to address reality but also repress people who are different, or who just disagree with him.

We have deleted this discussion and will not invoke it to justify our conclusions.

The philosopher Daniel Dennett invoked it to probe the paradoxes of identity.

He talks about terror a lot, and invokes it to justify unrelated wars he feels like fighting.

Indeed, such was the power and authority of the Alfonsine code that it proved the king's downfall when his son invoked it to challenge his rule.

But he invokes it to show that if one really reads it carefully enough, one can see that the lesson to be drawn has nothing whatsoever to do with the due and timely investment of one's talent.

Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri alluded to the saying in a letter to a fellow leader to criticize his overzealous killing of Shiites, according to Cook, and moderate Islamists have invoked it to criticize jihadi violence.