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How to use the word INVOKE in a Sentence?

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When the body is warmed, the water ice restructures to a more stable and compact form, and the trapped gas can escape, this could explain ‘Oumuamua’s behavior but doesn’t need to invoke any exotic chemistry or physics.

– Jennifer Bergner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The people that I talk to are afraid. They are frightened of what the administration of justice has become, we've got to send people to Washington to understand how much of a crisis there is and who are willing to take the steps necessary to invoke Congress's full power to bring these administrative agencies in line and to change the way the bureaucracy is built and maintained.

– Dan Bishop

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

An armed attack on Philippine armed forces, public vessels and aircraft will invoke State Antony Blinken mutual defense commitments under that treaty, the Philippines is an irreplaceable friend, partner, and ally to the United States.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A former president must be able to successfully invoke the Presidential communications privilege for communications that occurred during his Presidency even if the current President does not support the privilege claim.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The issue, as I understood, before us was not about the content of the documents or when you look at them, but simply what happens when the current incumbent president says I'm not going to invoke executive privilege as to these documents with respect to this particular request.

– Patricia Millett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We want Meadows to come in and testify on everything of interest to us, if he thinks there are some questions that are covered by either executive privilege or the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, he can invoke it and a court can settle it later.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Choose to choose. One of the great traps of life is being stuck. Stuck in a job you don’t like, a relationship that has run its course, your level of healthiness or wealth are all things that you can change if you invoke the right and privilege to choose to choose. Trapping yourself in your own thoughts is a formula for failure and an unhappy life.

– Andreas Simic

added by meristifl
2 years ago

There was a district attorney in Pennsylvania who declined to prosecute Cosby, castor made a very public statement saying that we're not going to prosecute Bill Cosby because of insufficient evidence. Relying on that statement, Cosby and in a subsequent civil case, not a criminal case, was unable to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

– Neama Rahmani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today we’re looking at Section 4, which we are asking the Vice President to invoke by activating and mobilizing the Cabinet to declare what is patently obvious to a horrified and anxious nation : the President is not even minimally discharging the basic duties of his office, i do n’t think there is a reasonable person in the country with his or her eyes open who does n’t understand that the President was hell-bent on trying to challenge, undermine, and overturn the result of the election in all of the events leading up to January 6th, and on January 6th.

– Jamie Raskin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Reports that these were part of exercise equipment do not remove nor excuse their torturous and terrorizing effects, we are all responsible for knowing the history and present day reality of lynchings, hate crimes and racial violence. Objects that invoke such terror will not be tolerated in Oakland's public spaces.

– Libby Schaaf

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We must together invoke the spirit of Bharat Mata( Mother India) and ensure that the dark clouds of the virus make way for the light hope.

– Prime Minister Modi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation's history, as is The President. We'll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The radical behavior of rioters took Hong Kong through a very dark night, leaving society today half-paralyzed, the extreme violence clearly illustrated that Hong Kong's public safety is widely endangered. That's the concrete reason that we had to invoke emergency law yesterday to introduce the anti-mask law.

– Carrie Lam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is an ancient, colonial set of regulations, and Christopher Cheung don't use them unless Christopher Cheung can't legislate anymore. Once Christopher Cheung start, there's no end to it. She could even invoke Article 23 under this, that gives her justification - I need more police powers, I need more draconian laws - it's so handy. She is completely destroying the rule of law. Only the government can really harm the rule of law, citizens can not.

– Martin Lee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

At the moment there are still plenty of tools. We have different articles in the police force ordinance and articles in the public order ordinance which we can still invoke to control the situation. We haven't got to the stage when we really have to engage in enacted laws by the chief executive with the executive council to, for example, enact anti-mask or interception of internet messages. We're quite a distance from that.

– Maria Tam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The emergency legislation is something that is left behind by the colonial British government. It's nothing to do with the Basic Law. It's entirely in the power of the highly autonomous region, at the moment there are still plenty of tools. We have different articles in the police force ordinance and articles in the public order ordinance which we can still invoke to control the situation. We haven't got to the stage when we really have to engage in enacted laws by the chief executive with the executive council to, for example, enact anti-mask or interception of internet messages. We're quite a distance from that.

– Maria Tam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Russia is more deliberate in Libya as they invoke Gadhafi - era relationships and debts to obtain economic and military contracts, these agreements are aimed at accessing Libya's vast oil market, reviving arms sales, and gaining access to coastal territories on the Mediterranean Sea, providing Russia closer access to Europe's southern border.

– Thomas Waldhauser

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You cant have it both ways. You invoke President Obama more than anybody in this campaign. You cant do it when its convenient and then dodge it when its not.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

At the time following the Civil War, at its core, it meant all persons had the right to be protected by the police, that the laws of the country should protect all people, in the 20th century, more broader questions were litigated under the 14th Amendment, like Brown v. Board of Education -- whether segregation was constitutional. Cases involving the internment of Japanese citizens, case from the marriage equality decisions, even Roe vs. Wade have strains of equal protection language and invoke due process law.

– United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect, i will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.

– Rod Rosenstein

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect, i will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me clear about this : Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.

– Rod Rosenstein

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect, i will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me clear about this : Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25thAmendment.

– Rod Rosenstein

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Having somebody like Emmet sitting behind you makes you feel a lot better about life, i think I'm the last sitting White House staffer to go to Capitol Hill and correctly invoke executive privilege on behalf of the president.

– Scott Jennings

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Nearly 40 state constitutions have similar constitutional provisions that opponents of school choice have tried to invoke in the past to halt school choice programs in their tracks.

– Timothy Keller

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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