Sentence examples for invoke the wisdom from inspiring English sources

Chinese leaders often invoke the wisdom and moderation of Confucius these days.

ANY reader of this newspaper knows how The Times likes to invoke the wisdom of people identified as "experts" or "analysts," but until I counted their presence the other day I had no idea how crowded with expertise the paper was.

Will's plays were Screens of a high order, all to invoke the wisdom and wits that got us to this point.

Invoking the wisdom of her husband, "surfer legend" Skip, she says with a smile: "It's sort of like the surf.

The past is a source of comfort for Mr. Clayton as he invokes the wisdom of the ancients that fishing cycles wax and wane in the vast Chesapeake.

Lord Justice Jacob invoked the wisdom of Justice Holmes: "A tyro thinks to puzzle you by asking you where you are going to draw the line and an advocate of more experience will show the arbitrariness of the line proposed by putting cases very near it on one side or the other".

Invoking the wisdom of Solomon, they arrived at the ludicrous compromise that Di Stéfano, who was restricted to playing in friendlies and exhibitions while getting thoroughly fed up with the behaviour of both clubs, should alternate between Real and Barcelona a season at a time for four years, at which point both clubs would reach an agreement on his future.

An hour or so later, Lord Skidelsky is invoking the wisdom of John Maynard Keynes, demolishing the fallacy that government finances are analogous to domestic household budgets, and explaining Keynes's "paradox of thrift", whose logic dictates that the state's route out of recession must involve not saving but spending more.

St. Paul seemed to get this in his letter to the Romans, when he invoked the wisdom of King Solomon: "There is none righteous, not even one".

For instance, to offset notions from disgruntled sentimentalists that he should remain in Cleveland, he invoked the wisdom of his mother.

Invoking the wisdom of Judith Viorst and her 1986 book Necessary Losses, Andrea Brandt, Ph.D., author of 8 Keys to Eliminating Passive-Aggressiveness, says that my decision was typical — and appropriate.