Sentence examples for merely invokes from inspiring English sources

It merely invokes a platitude or a sound bite to explain him away".

The less potent Article 4, which merely invokes consultation among NATO members, has been invoked four times: by Turkey in 2003 over the Iraq War, twice in 2012 by Turkey over the Syrian Civil War after the downing of an unarmed Turkish F-4 reconnaissance jet and after a mortar was fired at Turkey from Syria and in 2014 by Poland following the Russian intervention in Crimea.

Merely invoking the island's name, however romanticized, could embolden blacks to fight for greater freedom at home.

But by merely invoking her story in the context of the adult Maggie's love affair, Parker doesn't make it fully resonant.

White House officials said they were merely invoking tools that the United States explicitly negotiated with China as part of its acceptance into the World Trade Organization.

The most charitable interpretation is that Trump is merely invoking this conspiracy against him and his voters to get them out to the polls, to stave off loss of the House and oversight or impeachment later.

Karen Watson, an American spokeswoman, insisted that the company was honoring its contract and was merely invoking an emergency clause that she said allowed the company to suspend certain commitments under extreme circumstances.

Let's remember that, by merely invoking Isis, a man in blue convinced a carriage full of people to silently collude with him in the racist harassment of a fellow citizen.

Adidas might have tempered the criticism if it had better acknowledged the misunderstanding instead of merely invoking Mr. Scott's "outrageous and unique" style, said Monica L. Miller, an associate English professor at Barnard College and author of "Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity".

House is eternal, but some of the current crop of producer merely invoke 90s nostalgia with bouncing piano chords and vintage bassline effects – a nostalgia taken to crass depths by Redlight, who gets a woman to intone 90s signifiers such as "Moschino jeans" and "Biggie Smalls" over a cheap beat.

Nonetheless, merely invoking an intuitive distinction does not show the distinction marks a genuine difference.