Sentence examples for they were invoking from inspiring English sources

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

They are invoking cost-benefit analysis as their weapon of choice — and to impose "paralysis by analysis".

Today, when you hear politicians and talk-show hosts spew platitudes about common sense and the wisdom of ordinary people, Andy Taylor is part of the collective memory they're invoking.

But above all, they are invoking a very old tradition in politics: trying to break through ideology and partisanship and make an appeal based on the moral authority of women as mothers.