Sentence examples for invoking as from inspiring English sources

Hagel was invoking, as he often does, the need to see through an antagonist's eyes.

Mr. Chávez has long said, "I am the people," a mantra that his supporters are invoking as they plan to don the sash the president would have worn had he been able to attend his inauguration, symbolically becoming presidents themselves.

The cashier was invoking, as many Turks still do, the old Turkish currency instead of the new, which was introduced in 2005 and lopped six zeroes off everyone's bills.

(The term "Bushman," once derogatory, is now used by the people themselves, and by N.G.O.s, "invoking as it does a set of positive if romantic stereotypes," Suzman notes, though some Khoisan prefer to use the term "San").

Still, even the fact of the speech was noteworthy — it's hard to imagine any of his predecessors standing before that crowd and invoking, as Obama did, a vision of the day when "we as a nation finally recognize that relationships between two men or two women are just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman".

Michael Brown, Fuhrman said just a few days ago, was "the suspect from the very beginning to the very end", a rather candid expression of racial profiling – invoking, as it does, the criminalization of the black male body from the cradle to the grave.

Some of this sounds familiar; for decades we have regarded science as crucial to global competitiveness, an idea invoked as recently as in Barack Obama's campaign.

These tragedies were invoked as "the Tennants' Curse".

"Entryism" is being invoked as a reason to disenfranchise voters.

Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati are frequently invoked as stylistic models.

This appreciation is often invoked as evidence of biophilia.