The phrase "invoke the right" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts when referring to the act of exercising or calling upon a specific right or entitlement.
Example: "In order to protect her interests, she decided to invoke the right to remain silent during the interrogation."
Alternatives: "exercise the right" or "assert the right."
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.
In cases where a suspect does not explicitly invoke the right to remain silent, the court should have set a time limit on how long the police can continue questioning.
Like the aristocrats of ancient Rome, who revered the imagines maiorum, the wax masks of their forefathers that hung in the atria of their mansions, directors general need to invoke the right ancestor figures.
"If I claim desire as my right," the central character in Brink's novel asks himself rather awkwardly, "does not my right to desire invoke the right of the other to refuse me?
Only by choosing not to join the union can a worker invoke the right under the court's ruling to withhold the part of the fee that would go to political activity.
Ideally, these services are well-defined implementations which can be readily understood by clients in order to find and invoke the right service for a particular task.
And won't they invoke the rights of ordinary people without burdening themselves with the responsibilities?
Australia invoked the right of collective self-defence under the ANZUS security pact to pledge its support for America.
Flanked by his lawyers, he invoked the right to avoid incriminating himself and did not answer any questions.
Invoking the right of eminent domain, the state has told the club it must leave the site by July 31.
But it plans to demolish the 1909 Sheffield stable on Broadway, and does not rule out invoking the right of eminent domain to get it.
