Sentence examples for invoke the powers from inspiring English sources
Others just wanted to invoke the powers of witchcraft to assert some control in their lives, she said.
Even if the government hesitates to invoke the powers it conferred on itself in May to block such a deal in defence of its strategic interests, the public sector is still Alstom's main customer in France.
People tend to imagine that the Parliament Act requires some kind of ceremony where the Clerks gather under a blasted oak at midnight, to perform a blood sacrifice and invoke the powers of darkness… but actually the process is quite low key and off camera.
Mormon fathers still, Mr. Bowman writes, "lay their hands on the heads of their children and invoke the power of God to seal blessings upon their heads".
Many are composites, assembled under instructions from a diviner, coated in palm oil and blood and then activated to invoke the power to protect, or harm.
He has said the center would be a symbol of "conquest" for Muslims, and he has pledged to invoke the power of eminent domain to block it.
Again he decided to invoke the power of kawaii to highlight the growing problem of one-time-use and disposable items.
"The whole question of whether the Security Council should invoke the power within the statute is a matter which a number of delegations have raised today," Britain's United Nations ambassador, Sir John Sawers, told reporters afterward.
Mossi arts reflect the duality of the original inhabitants and rulers: figural sculptures are owned and used ritually by rulers in political contexts, while masks are owned by farmers and invoke the power of ancestors.
The Commons public accounts committee is to invoke the power of a standing order to force the broadcaster to release information about 150 redundancy payments to senior managers between 2010 and 2012.
But it wasn't necessary to invoke the power of the CG's rep, because Nino's smiley lady maître d' said she'd have a table for us in 15, and directed us through to the bar to wait.
