Sentence examples for invoke the memory from inspiring English sources
The new President will almost certainly invoke the memory of Lincoln's life and career at his inauguration.
Hunger strikes – which invoke the memory of those undertaken by Mahatma Gandhi – are popular political tactics in India and are frequent features of public life.
The Holocaust Museum did not comment directly on Mr. von Brunn's death, but used the occasion to invoke the memory of Mr. Johns.
It is hardly surprising that President George Bush and the hawks in his administration invoke the memory of Sir Winston Churchill with ever growing fervour as they plead the historic necessity of a pre-emptive attack on Iraq.
Hill and Tatum have a great double-act going; I'm tempted to invoke the memory of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, only both are interestingly subdued, and Tatum is no straight man; he has a gift for comedy.
The movement was boosted by Jamaican prime minister Michael Manley who found it politically useful to invoke the memory of Marcus Garvey in the 70s, and even waved Garvey's "Rod of Correction" during his meetings.
As they marched, the demonstrators consciously invoked the memory of the Soweto student uprisings.
While he invoked the memory of Winston Churchill, a member of the audience stung him by invoking the memory of Neville Chamberlain.
Opposing the union, Yossi Beilin, the justice minister, invoked the memory of Yitzhak Rabin, the late prime minister.
This, she says, again invoking the memory of her childhood friend, "has happened in a generation".
