Sentence examples for she was invoking from inspiring English sources

"It sounds like she was invoking a familiar historical circumstance in support of her argument for continuing her campaign".

She was invoking and directly quoting former Senator Ted Stevens, known as Uncle Ted, who died in August, her mentor and a figure revered for bringing home billions of dollars in federal money.

Judge Gleeson asked Ms. Ahmad why she was invoking the mandatory minimum.

As a fertility deity she was invoked by women to aid conception and delivery.

A few moments later she was invoked again, when the junior Greenwood explained to Jake that every line-out call should pass "the mum test".

She was invoked in one or another of her nine forms, Navadurga, or as Bhadrakali.

Additionally, the ghost of Miley Cyrus still cannot rest peacefully, as she was invoked in the monologue.

"She is invoking the spirits of the dead, and the way I was brought up, what you do in the house you don't do outside," he says.

"Ms. Burk will say anything to get publicity," Greenspan said in a statement, "but if she is invoking the troops to draw more attention to herself, only three words apply -- shame on you".

By writing about Ansari's "aspirational" qualities, she is invoking society's stereotypes about dark-skinned and Muslim men being sexually deviant and misogynistic, while also trying to subvert those same stereotypes.

The patron of the Medical Corps is St . Jude St. Barbara is the patron of prisoners of war and of artillerymen, fortifications are also under her care, and she is invoked by a rather mixed lot of civilians-architects, gravediggers and stonemasons.