invoke formal * , auch: invocate old use

His name has been invoked perhaps more often than anyone else's.

The act has been invoked just four times since it became law in 1949.

He said a decision on whether to invoke the law would be made by today.

What did it matter which one he invoked if the cause was right?

It was you who invoked me, not the other way around.

They have no right to invoke the will of the people.

Each time he invoked the power, it seemed to take something away from him.

If so, he did not want to invoke her here in public.

Now, for the first time, something with real intelligence was invoked.

But when asked about specific plans, he invoked the words of his father.

Perhaps, once invoked, fear of a place, a person or thing never goes away.

But the military and police are not the only ones to invoke the national security law.

It has been invoked twice in the last 17 years.

In practice it has never had to invoke this law.

I invoked the name of my dead son for strength.

Which meant that another sort of power would have to be invoked.

It was no small thing, to invoke the god like that.

In the last few months alone two new books have invoked the concept.

It is not very clear to me as to why and where you want to invoke pressure.

It was the first time in her life she had ever invoked a man's name for protection.

Defense lawyers are likely to invoke his name as well.

The government has invoked national security to close the hearings.

To speak of peace, particularly now, is to invoke a great political issue as well.

But why should God be invoked in the face of the unknown?

Of course the very high wage costs have been invoked.