Sentence examples for invoking among from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, an advocacy group, is challenging the auction, invoking, among other things, a federal law that protects historic ships.

This leads to the case of the "illiberal state-building" of Angola, where the elite is invoking, among others, the lack of human resources to justify a different state-building "in defiance of liberal peace precepts on civil liberties, the rule of law, the expansion of economic freedoms and poverty alleviation" [ 44].

Detective Fox's name is invoked among detectives with reverent comparisons to "Rain Man".

The names of Goose Tatum and Pop Gates were invoked, among others, and Meadowlark Lemon's celluloid image played on the video screen.

In promoting Poppy Shakespeare, Bloomsbury and the booksellers will no doubt invoke, among other books, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Or with such humor; I can't think of another intellectual historian of his stature who would give a book a title that invokes, among other jokes, a classic Monty Python scene.

A novel told by two narrators, both of whom doubt their own accuracy, is taking risks with the reader's commitment, and these risks are compounded when Jess Richards invokes, among others, The Interpretation of Dreams, the Brothers Grimm, Angela Carter and Shakespearian comedy.

Jerry Yang of Yahoo and G. Kennedy Thompson of Wachovia are also invoked, among others.

He explained that the film was aimed at invoking nostalgia among the large section of NRI's in Canada, United Kingdom and North America.

Cricket invokes passion among the one billion people who play it.

Whatever unease politicians may stir when they invoke Christmas among non-Christians does not seem to apply here.