Sentence examples for invoke to kill from inspiring English sources

The authors invoke "To Kill a Mockingbird": they call her "a modern-day 'Boo' Radley, shut up inside by choice, safe from a world that can hurt".

Second, it was an abandonment by Republican leaders, who had invoked party discipline to kill similar legislation in 2009.

That someone's race was overtly invoked as a reason to kill him during trial should be indicator enough that the death penalty has meaning for the public beyond alleviating concerns about violent crime.

Perhaps I haven't heard from him because he's been so busy stirring up passions around the world, firing up crowds who invoke him by different names to kill their fellow man as the eternal quarrel rolls on.

On Tuesday the defence secretary and the man who gave the order to kill, Michael Fallon, invoked an instructive point of comparison – too instructive, perhaps, for his own good.

The Obama political and legislative team would learn that, back then, it was necessary to get 66 votes to invoke cloture and kill any filibuster.

There are scenes where weapons are used, where animals attempt to kill humans and where magic is invoked to physically harm others.

She had persuaded him not to kill her by invoking the misery her death would bring her parents: "And he didn't!" She smoked luxuriously and leaned back in her chair, into the sky with red writ across it.

In Damascus over the weekend, Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader who the Obama administration contends used chemical weapons to kill his own people, invoked the memory of Sept. 11 in warning against an attack on his country.

Other senses are invoked with visceral effect — it seems impossible to kill someone without filling the air with the smell of feces.

In language that frighteningly invokes Pol Pot's Cambodia, they've vowed to kill millions more and "hoist the hammer and sickle atop Mount Everest".