Sentence examples for they were invoked from inspiring English sources

They were invoked to explain a wide range of modern and ancient volcanic phenomena, including a billion-year-old rift beneath Lake Superior and the gigantic outpouring of lavas called the Siberian Traps, which may have triggered the Permian-Triassic extinction event, the most devastating in Earth's history.

However, possible worlds failed to gain any real traction among philosophers until the 1960s when they were invoked to provide the conceptual underpinnings of some powerful developments in modal logic.

As to the "concussion protocols" there is no evidence that they were invoked following any of the hits to Newton's head.

Inari's divine role continued to expand; on the coast, they became a protector of fishermen; in Edo, they were invoked to prevent fires.

They did not disclaim the attention when they were invoked as scholarly validators of bad policies, and even in their ivory tower they are surely aware that austerity is a highly charged political debate.

We discuss them in the approximate order in which they were invoked.

This is not a platitude they were invoking but an undeniable historical truth.

Representatives of the Sierra Club and other conservation groups said they were invoking a clause in the Clean Water Act that permits lawsuits if those accused of polluting do not remedy environmental problems within 60 days.

They used the language of faith and trust to signal to courts and to officials that they were invoking well-known commands of loyalty long recognized at common law.

They were invoking the homestead principle, and were outraged in their belief that I was stealing something they owned.

They felt it was important while under the huppah to recognize that they were invoking a right denied gay people by every state in the union.