Sentence examples for selectively invoked from inspiring English sources

The accusation of war crimes is nothing more than a tactic selectively invoked by Israel's enemies.

In May 1963, a law against the flying of religious flags was selectively invoked; the Buddhist flag was banned from display on Vesak while the Vatican flag was displayed to celebrate the anniversary of the consecration of Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục, Diệm's elder brother.

The government decided to selectively invoke a law, prohibiting the display of religious flags, by banning the use of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, the birthday of Gautama Buddha.

The seeds of both group selection theory and kin selection theory are present in the work of Charles Darwin, and both were invoked to address a single problem--how traits that are "for the good of the group" can evolve when they are selectively disadvantageous within groups.

Justice Alito invoked Plato.

He invoked Krane repeatedly.

Keith Hernandez invoked Willie McCovey.

They pleaded and invoked Scripture.

Rabelais was invoked, and Walt Whitman.

But he invoked it indirectly.

Sometimes the great poet is invoked directly.