Sentence examples for it's invoked from inspiring English sources

In most cases it's invoked, the "slippery slope" is a fallacy.

The carrot definitely has it better, inasmuch as it's invoked as the kinder alternative to the stick.

When it's invoked on television or in movies, it's often a joke and a marker of superficiality: A character who is a model or an actress eats a normal meal and then disappears to the bathroom to throw it up.

I don't remember an election in my lifetime in which people talked about "the peaceful transition of power," yet now it's invoked constantly, as if avoiding bloodshed or ballot-stuffing strongmen is a great virtue.

It's invoked regularly when talking about technologies like drones and virtual reality.

And it's especially a bad idea when it's invoked during an era when armed revolt against the government is being taken very seriously.

Never mind the shitting – perhaps it's invoking Mailer's spirit in 2014 that is truly provocative.

It was inevitable that Metcalfe's Law would be taken in vain, as when it was invoked by Al Gore (1996) and Bill Clinton (1998) in commencement addresses at MIT.

Whiteness, among those with a title to it, is invoked only in a dance of disavowal.

It was invoked just twice before 1980, when it was used by a victim of state repression in Paraguay.

But now it is invoked less often as an excuse to avoid doing something that would otherwise make sense.