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Example sentences for: invocation

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The end of the Philadelphia Declaration resonates with another invocation of a higher power: “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
An editorial in the right-wing ABC supported the invocation of Kosovo, damning the nationalists' focus on "ethnicity, linguistic imposition, collusion with ETA terrorism, dishonest rewriting of history, and social exclusion."
But there is something else important to say about swearing--that it represents the invocation of those ideas a society considers powerful, awesome, and a little scary.
Nobody pointed out that at Chappaquiddick, unlike Dallas and Los Angeles, the person most responsible for the tragedy was a Kennedy, whereas the victim was not--and that Ted Kennedy's invocation of the family "curse" was a clever way of papering over these differences.
Interestingly, the papers report Primakov's invocation of FDR and the New Deal as an example of successful government intervention in an economic crisis.