Sentence examples for was invoked to explain from inspiring English sources

This year, the supposed overemphasis on diversity was invoked to explain everything from ESPN's falling ratings to the middling quality of U.S. soccer, from flagging enthusiasm for the Star Wars universe to a dip in comic-book sales.

They claimed that all the features that the language instinct was invoked to explain can arise in a "neural network" in the absence of any predesigned structure of rules or grammar.

The electrochemical mechanism for the perhydroxyl reduction reaction was invoked to explain the experimental results.

A carbon (or nitrogen) atom knock-on during the arsenic implant was invoked to explain the observed local hindering of the silicide formation.

For instance, "self purification", a thermodynamical concept, was invoked to explain the low doping concentration in the case of Mn-doped CdSe nanocrystals [11].

The recovery of the recently discovered very open honeycomb structure formed by Na+MT gel, after breakdown by shear was invoked to explain the ageing behaviour.

The invention of agriculture has long been invoked to explain the spread of the Indo-European languages.

Evidence of volcanic activity is common, and this has been invoked to explain the concentrations of sedimentary hematite iron ores in the Givetian and Frasnian.

In the context of allergic disease, the hygiene hypothesis — that we suffer from microbial deprivation — has long been invoked to explain these patterns.

Relief inversion has been invoked to explain a number of geomorphic features of the martian surface.

Similar processes have been invoked to explain the diversity of other Shark Bay biota.