Sentence examples for opportunity to invoke from inspiring English sources

And in those cases in which the parents of a truly dangerous child adamantly refuse to permit any change in placement, the 10-day respite gives school officials an opportunity to invoke the aid of the courts…to grant any appropriate relief.

Coming from a man who never misses an opportunity to invoke Sept. 11, his decision to compare the Thursday blackout with the beginning of his presidency -- rather than with the tragedy that redefined domestic emergency procedures, and for which he was as woefully unprepared as the rest of us -- was alarming.

The nonnative fish, a voracious predator with the potential to wreak havoc on ecosystems, gave federal authorities an unusual opportunity to invoke a century-old law and ban the fish's import.

Hagalaz presents an excellent opportunity to invoke lesser known protectors.

President Obama will have the opportunity to invoke that memory when he represents our nation at Hiroshima in a few weeks.

(Two years later, NAN honored former NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, granting him the opportunity to invoke Martin Luther King Jr. in defense of the department's relentless stop-and-frisk policy).

Although his remarks focused on the historical battle for racial equality, the president used the opportunity to subtly invoke the anti-Muslim rhetoric that has taken hold of the Republican presidential contest.

Hurd and Clarke make the compelling argument that patients' engagement in self-management is in part driven by a desire to regain control over their bodies [ 32], which appeals to the notion that chronic illness, and indeed multimorbidity, present opportunities for patients to invoke a moral discourse and reinstate agency and self-determination through self-management [ 33].

I suspect that Nash, like JMW Turner, just wasn't that great at painting people, but this provided an opportunity to find other ways to invoke their presence.

The best way to answer this question is to invoke what economists call "opportunity cost".

But, Cohen claims, any justification for such compensation has to invoke the idea of equality of opportunity to welfare.