Sentence examples for invoked unless from inspiring English sources

FIFA added the six-second rule to Law 12 in 1998, but it has always been seen as a guideline more than as a hard-and-fast regulation, and not to be invoked unless there is an egregious violation.

It is the first time the sanctions process has been invoked and, unless a compromise over quotas can be found, it is likely to hit the Faroe Islands especially hard.

The absence of eukaryotic core components from the replication machinery of the ancestor of a given archaeal lineage would exclude the emergence of eukaryotes from one of its members (unless invoking an extremely unparsimonious scenario where the component was independently lost in all members of the lineage but only kept in the one that would have given rise to eukaryotes).

If you have spent a long time to get the scepter and you want to keep it, don't press the invoke option, unless you want to teleport to Barbarian Village.

States are generally immune from suits for damages unless Congress has invoked a valid basis for declaring otherwise.

Tenses are muddled, the voice wavers, becoming from time to time the voice of Marr giving us the heads up; the weather is frequently invoked for no obvious reason, unless it is because Marr thinks notes on the weather are a posh novelistic trope.

Now it is rare to see his name in print unless it is being invoked as shorthand for corrupted innocence or curdled dreams.

This question, ritualistically invoked at news conferences, is typically answered with exemplary diplomacy (unless the moderator suppresses it altogether).

Mr. Inzko was so adamant, they said, that he had threatened to resign unless the Bonn powers were invoked.

But aides to Mr. Inzko said that he thought failing to stand up to Mr. Dodik would undermine international credibility and that he had threatened to resign unless the Bonn powers were invoked.

Guess he didn't have one -- unless it was "Quirky," the word invoked by the Bush handlers Ari Fleischer and Karen Hughes to belittle the senator once he was out the door.