Sentence examples for invoke the opinion from inspiring English sources
On the day that he received Chase's letter, he gave a speech that said nothing about Bates's opinion, though it would have been natural to invoke the opinion during the part of the speech that called for "giving the benefit of public schools equally to black and white".
He casts a wide philosophical and historical net, invoking the opinions of jurists like Louis Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes as well as the writings of Amartya Sen and John Dewey.
To validate her choice of celebrities to gild them symbolically as feminist trainwrecks Doyle must often invoke the worst possible opinions about them.
Defendants can invoke the public interest, and "honest opinion".
Justice John Paul Stevens objected that if it had, the other principles of law invoked in the opinion would have been unnecessary.
We, a group of concerned citizens, invoke the political responsibility of Europe's opinion- makers and political leaders.
Campaigners invoke the constitution in their cause.
One might even invoke the mimetic fallacy.
The court's 5-to-4 opinion in the case of Berghuis v. Thompkins said that a suspect who wants the police to stop an interrogation must explicitly invoke the right to remain silent.
However, in a majority opinion that infuriated conservative critics of the president, the supreme court simultaneously endorsed a broad interpretation of the circumstances in which a president can invoke the clause to appoint government officials without consulting the Senate.
