Sentence examples for invoking against from inspiring English sources

Shortly after, he was incarcerated in the federal prison system, charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the same law that federal prosecutors were invoking against the late Aaron Swartz — a close friend of weev.

Two laws were invoked against them.

It has already been invoked against independent analysts and journalists.

Medicare is an issue that Democrats have frequently invoked against Republicans; now the tables are turned.

Is that what the European project is — either Germany foots the bill or our past is invoked against us?

It is never invoked against the élite — we've never had an Islamic banking system here, for example.

The commitment provisions have been invoked against relatively few rapists and other sex offenders considered serious threats to public safety.

Findlater pointed out that there are already sanctions that could be invoked against those who failed to take action.

They provide longer mandatory prison sentences than local and state laws and are usually invoked against traditional organized-crime organizations.

The court found that self-defence could not be relied upon because it could only be invoked against states.

Ibn Ḥanbal himself is one of the fathers of Islām whose names have constantly been invoked against the forces of rationalism down through the ages.