Sentence examples for point of invoking from inspiring English sources

But in general, the point of invoking God in moral debates is not to pre-emptively solve the dilemmas that moral philosophers grapple with.

The original letter made a point of invoking free speech and did not ban any kind of costume; it simply encouraged students to give due consideration to others, in the hopes of fostering a nondiscriminatory, tolerant community — "one Yale".

"The Frogs" makes a point of invoking every bromide that ever was that uses the word hell, many of which are delivered with welcome deadpan severity by John Byner as Charon, the Boatman of the River Styx.

The relevance of "threshold deontology" is explored, and it is suggested that much of the point of invoking dirty hands comes from an ambiguous attitude to absolute moral prohibitions, combining a rejection of them with a certain wistful attachment to their flavour.

Naïvely, I thought that the point of invoking this ugly, harmful word was to prod people to think twice before using the term.

Not to excuse Trump in any way, but we are at the point of invoking Godwin's Law, which states that any argument (in an election) has reached the point of uselessness when one side is accusing the other of Nazi thinking.

John Ridley then took the opportunity to imply that someone from Las Vegas could not complain about sexism, which sort of missed the point — Alan invoking the paradigm of two guys making jokes at the expense of a "blonde babe" was not the same as him dismissing Mika himself as a blonde babe.

On that score, the killing of Osama bin Laden changed nothing, said Mr. Mukasey, who reinforced the point by invoking a favorite source for conservatives, Winston Churchill.

And they do put themselves in some heady company, at one point even invoking Shakespeare -- that "unrepentant serial coiner" -- to bless their mission of invention.

As a point of departure, I invoke Hannah Arendt's notion of appearance as a way to thematize the importance of public display within Ugandan social life and the challenge that people with readily evident disabilities pose to Ugandan social aesthetics.

Art is a powerful communicator in that it can both express a point of view and invoke feelings.