Sentence examples for is invoking that from inspiring English sources

The city of Oakland is invoking that amendment in demanding federal prosecutors drop their bid to seize marijuana and other assets from Harborside Health Center, the nation's largest dispensary, which has generated a tax windfall for the cash-strapped city.

When a program is invoked that creates a number of threads, each thread provides its own stack (local variables and status).

In its place, a provision in the interim constitution was to be invoked that would give considerable authority to the executive.

Something that doesn't need to be invoked, that shouldn't be invoked, but that will still be invoked because, as Terry Pratchett explains in Thief of Time: Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it.

Mancini spent a long part of the day discussing the matter with al-Mubarak and asked for a suspension to be invoked that would mean Tevez was not allowed at the stadium or the training ground.

Too often when Indian-American relations are discussed in Washington, the notion is invoked that India might somehow turn out to be a "counterweight" to China.

Although their disciplinary status as well as their relation to each other is rarely discussed in depth, now and again the idea is invoked that both approaches represent 'two sides of the same coin'.

where the fact is invoked that the system noise vector W k,l and the measurement noise vector V k,l are pairwise independent.

Anthropologist Joseph Tainter's explanation for the fall of the Roman Empire is invoked, that "complex systems inevitably succumb to diminishing returns" so that the costs of operating an empire are so high that alternatives are implemented.

When SNARK encounters expressions with procedural attachments, such as: (gene-in-organism ?gene med4) a data source is invoked that yields all the genes in the given organism (Procholorococcus sp. strain Med4).

First, if the assumption is invoked that the total infectious period is kept constant, then with decreasing 1/ κ the term R' is constant in SELDCRS but will decrease with decreasing 1/ γ in SELIRS.