Sentence examples for invoke to avert from inspiring English sources

A Brahminical divinity (a deification of the planet Saturn) whose aid the Siamese invoke to avert evil, etc. Pra Hat Bodi, riding a deer and holding a long-handled lance.

A Brahminical deity (the planet Mercury personified) invoked to avert calamity, etc.

Vulcan was invoked to avert fires, as his epithets Quietus and Mulciber (Fire Allayer) suggest.

A Brahminical divinity, invoked in Siam to avert evil, etc. Pra Put, riding an elephant and holding a sword in each hand.

The planet Jupiter personified, a Brahminical deity, invoked in Siam to avert evil, etc. Pra Tsan, riding a horse, holding a circular shield and sword.

A Brahminical deity invoked in Siam to avert misfortune, etc. Pra Suk, riding an ox and holding a snake-shaped bow.

Daniel Rosenberg Daneri, plans to use his findings from interviews about how stewardship groups in Philadelphia invoke city place meanings to avert gentrification in a major urban development project in Newark.

He framed the deal as the latest step in a half century of American policy to avert nuclear confrontation, invoking Kennedy's diplomacy during the Cuban missile crisis and the arms negotiations with the Soviet Union launched by Ronald Reagan.

The change in conditions may help to explain why the administration has disavowed ideas like minting a platinum coin or invoking a provision of the 14th Amendment to avert a debt default.

For example, President Bush invoked an arcane labor act twice last year to avert airline strikes; the Justice Department blocked United Airlines' proposed buyout of US Airways in July; and the Transportation Department publishes monthly consumer reports that rate the various carriers.

The White House dismissed calls for the president to invoke an untested and much-debated constitutional provision to avert a financial crisis as the Treasury Department prepared for the possibility of a default whose implications seemed that much greater given the fragility of the economy.