Example sentences for: invoking

How can you use “invoking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Invoking President Bush's own language, Clarke wrote,"You are left with a modest effort to swat flies, to try to prevent specific al Qida attacks by using [intelligence] to detect them and friendly governments' police and intelligence officers to stop them.

  • Insects defend themselves against parasites and pathogens by invoking a multitude of innate immune responses (Figure 1; for more details, see recent reviews by Hoffmann and Reichhart [2002], Hultmark [2003], Brennan and Anderson [2004], Meister [2004], and Theopold et al.

  • Invoking decorous values like self-restraint, decency, respect, personal and parental responsibility, and compassion has become an American pastime.

  • Dogs : Windwalker's Yes, best in the herding group, did not make self-serving speech invoking the Holocaust.

  • Although the amount of direct U.S. aid is minuscule, the Times and Journal explain that the Clinton administration is considering invoking a 1994 federal law that would, besides cutting off aid, also bar billions in American bank loans and World Bank and IMF aid.


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