Sentence examples similar to invoke regret from inspiring English sources
The president has the authority to strike these individuals under his Article II powers, but Obama refuses to invoke them -- a decision he may come to regret.
"I very much regret the distress the cartoon has caused, but I want to assure you that there was no intention to invoke any disturbing stereotypes - nor to incite any racial hatred," Goodsir wrote to one complainant.
The conservatives invoke freedom of choice.
The stacks invoke process.
Therefore, in our model we restrict the influence of regret to system I. Incidentally, our Equation 3) can also be derived from the general Mukherjee's DSM model even if regret is not specifically invoked [ 11].
Notions like regret or remorse are sometimes invoked to show that what had to be done was nonetheless immoral, but apart from the fact that an act such as the blackmail of a vicious criminal need not even be regrettable, there are many things one can rightly regret having to do that are not immoral, for example, punishing a child by withdrawing privileges.
In one of the best passages in the book he invokes Kipling's never-meeting twain, rightly regretting the debasing of even the words "mystic" and "spiritual" in our own language.
Today it is invoked as a reason to not accept responsibility, voice regret, show empathy.
"Yes," says Offe, invoking Winston Churchill's biting quip, "but the trouble with committing political suicide is that you live to regret it".
