Sentence examples for invoked him from inspiring English sources

Wellstone is a key figure in Minnesota's long liberal tradition; while I was there, everyone I spoke to invoked him.

As he did with many others in the 1960s, Mr. Godard seemed to haunt Mr. Bertolucci, who invoked him axiomatically in interviews.

The fact of Houdini's posthumous life as an aesthetic subject is far more interesting than the particular ways artists have invoked him.

Mr. Obama has so identified himself with Lincoln that he invoked him while announcing his candidacy in Lincoln's onetime political base, Springfield, Ill.

Yet for all this, the idiom of non-violent resistance he developed was to become an inspiration for generations of black leaders: Du Bois, King, Mandela – they all invoked him.

She had initially invoked him when Mr. Lazio got in the race, and then stopped trying to associate the two Congressional Republicans after her aides determined that it was showing no sign of traction.

Politicians invoke him as a near-deity.

By invoking him with such zeal, however, she is already placing him in the past.

"I could always invoke him — wheel him out as a weapon of mass destruction".

That would be Ronald Reagan, who was no friend to the left, no matter how many times Obama invokes him in speeches.

He is still being held, but he is rarely mentioned in the press, political figures never invoke him, his image is rarely seen.