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Example sentences for: invocation

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2) This ruling bodes ill for Clinton's similar invocation of presidential privilege to prevent Secret Service testimony.
An entirely innocent passage from Henry James (reprinted for us to judge for ourselves) prompts this from Sedgwick: "[The text] shows how in James a greater self-knowledge and a greater acceptance and specificity of homosexual desire transform this half-conscious enforcing rhetoric of anality, numbness, and silence into a much richer, pregnant address to James's male muse, an invocation to fisting-as-écriture."
It is accidental in the sense that Lincoln spontaneously added the divine invocation as he neared the end of the address.
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.”
The jury chose death, and the judge agreed, calling Capano's invocation of his family further evidence of his selfishness, ruthlessness, and contempt.