Sentence examples for invoking to from inspiring English sources

This could be the first $1 billion campaign, a figure that Republicans have been repeatedly invoking to encourage their donors to raise more money for candidates and the national party.

Mr Kouchner caused shockwaves last month by invoking, to the consternation of his own diplomats, the prospect of "war" in Iran even if, as he later stressed, he was only trying to spell out a worst-case scenario.

Kennedy, by contrast, wrote an angry dissent, suggesting that he had been duped in 1992 into supporting a malleable legal standard that O'Connor and the liberal justices were invoking to strike down abortion restrictions far later in pregnancy than he had anticipated -- restrictions supported by George W. Bush, Al Gore and two-thirds of the American people.

This raises the question: what principle are we invoking to adjudicate distinctness?

This is the very same treaty the United States is invoking to challenge Syria's use of chemical weapons on civilians.

The America he was invoking to propel serious, genuine health insurance reform at long last was the America that's anything but mean, the America that won't allow someone to go bankrupt because they got sick.

In both, tradition is invoked to oppose reform.

What belief system did they invoke to justify such deeds?

Make it "invoked" ("to cite as an authority"), or use something like "recalled," "cited," etc.

Vulcan was invoked to avert fires, as his epithets Quietus and Mulciber (Fire Allayer) suggest.

But perhaps the markets can be invoked to realise some gains.