Sentence examples for invoking the memory from inspiring English sources

This, she says, again invoking the memory of her childhood friend, "has happened in a generation".

The Americans, invoking the memory of the horrors of Rwanda a decade ago, have less coyly called it a genocide.

After invoking the memory of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Mr. Obama closed with a passionate, eloquent appeal for common ground.

And yesterday, just hours before Brewer stepped to the podium, Major League Baseball, invoking the memory of Jackie Robinson, did a solemn dance on the corpse.

Mr. Obama concluded by invoking the memory of the many Jews who joined the American civil rights struggle, and referred to the fraying of that alliance.

Godson accused them of "a certain form of left McCarthyism" and of deliberately invoking the memory of the Holocaust to harm the Tories.

Maybe he thinks that invoking the memories of Lee and Jackson, the Southern battlefield commanders, will help his cause.

Invoking the memories of the office workers, police officers and firefighters who perished in September, a parade of Democrats attacked the proposed tort changes.

Speaking in Clearwater, Mr. Edwards chided President Bush for invoking the memories of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy in an effort to woo Democratic voters.

He plays his generational politics explicitly, constantly invoking the memories of the Kennedys and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and stirring Democratic audiences with his promise to lead the nation through a new era of social change.

Proponents of David Cameron's austerity often defend it by invoking the memories of the 1970s with its runaway inflation, deficits and the humiliation of an International Monetary Fund bail-out.