Sentence examples for invoked the memory from inspiring English sources

As they marched, the demonstrators consciously invoked the memory of the Soweto student uprisings.

He invoked the memory of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, the revered father of the first Czechoslovak state.

Mr. Bush invoked the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. before his convention acceptance speech.

On Monday he invoked the memory of the March on Washington half a century ago.

Thomas invoked the memory of his mother, Mary, who raised and nurtured him, in his defense, calling her a feminist.

Mr. Bush invoked the memory of Adm. Hyman Rickover, who began the United States' nuclear submarine program.

President Bush invoked the memories of Pearl Harbor today as inspiration for America's war against terrorism, and then bluntly threatened the leaders of Al Qaeda holed up in eastern Afghanistan.

In a moving passage, he invoked the memories of Mahatma Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., saying that without Dr. King's vision, leadership and sacrifice, he never would have been standing at that lectern in Oslo.

This, she says, again invoking the memory of her childhood friend, "has happened in a generation".

The Americans, invoking the memory of the horrors of Rwanda a decade ago, have less coyly called it a genocide.

The Holocaust Museum did not comment directly on Mr. von Brunn's death, but used the occasion to invoke the memory of Mr. Johns.