Sentence examples for trying to invoke from inspiring English sources

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"That was the emotion we were trying to invoke".

Rather than trying to invoke sympathy, we tried to show how the athletes are normal people but also extraordinary".

Trying to invoke the spirit of Churchill won't wash nor will "we're all in this together" regardless of whether it comes from him or Osborne.

David Carey, a 48-year-old Roman Catholic who works for an insurance company here, said he appreciated that candidates were trying to "invoke a higher moral standard".

It's that kind of inner spirit that sci-fi Americana, uploading folk memory on to our cinema screens, is ultimately trying to invoke.

"I just stared at them for hours and hours, trying to invoke some sort of juju in them," willing the unloved recordings "into some sort of posterity," he remembered.

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Soon after, she said, she tried to invoke her right to cancel but was ignored.

He tried to invoke an escape hatch that would have allowed WPP to abandon the deal.

Ms. Chung and Mr. Condit tried to invoke these popular narratives to get what they wanted.

No wonder LSE and Deutsche tried to invoke visions of happy European harmony with their talk of "a merger of equals".

His opponents in parliament have said they will speed up the impeachment timetable unseating him in a couple of weeks—if he tries to invoke emergency powers.

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