Sentence examples for invokes from inspiring English sources

In arguing for the constitutional changes, Erdoğan commonly invokes the US and French systems as inspiration.

In the areas these few thousand men control, they have tried to ban samosas on the grounds that their triangular shape invokes the holy trinity.

"In academic writings on Buena Vista, there's a big deal made of the nostalgia and mystique and the fact it invokes an earlier era," says Robin D Moore, professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Texas, specialising in the music of Cuba.

It invokes physical phenomena that can only have been distinguishable within the first trillionth of a second of time, at temperatures measured in millions of billions of degrees.

Reid invokes these lumbering ­elephants in tribute to Lucinda, who was 55 when she died four years ago, writing, "may their spirit guide me as I place/ my own sad thoughts in new, hopeful arrangements".

Bringing in the Japanese MHI to do the heavy lifting in development and commercialisation invokes comparison with another alliance: not the much-cited one between Renault and Nissan (the French carmaker controls the partnership with its Japanese counterpart) but Dongfeng's support of Peugeot.

While this is intuitive enough, the formal account that explains this effect invokes rational voters who are selecting candidates closest to them in ideological space.

That motive invokes two big themes.

TONY BLAIR, after years as Britain's prime minister, remarked recently that religion and politics don't mix: a leader who invokes his faith is, he lamented, considered a "nutter".

"There is nothing that invokes the anger of God and His wrath like the unwarranted spilling of blood and wrecking of property," he wrote.Jihad had to be authorised by a qualified imam or sheikh, he said, not the "heroes of the internet".

Shaking ketchup invokes one of those elements: shear thinning.