"invoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- President Theodore Roosevelt routinely invoked a national decline in manliness to justify aggressive westward expansion and foreign imperialism.
- Where Bond routinely invokes his double-O license to kill, Drake, the hero of a '60s television show, abhors extreme violence and rarely packs a gun.
- Yet the current leadership of the Democratic Party, while routinely invoking Kennedy's name and memory, rejects his pro-growth economic legacy-which was among his greatest successes.
- Only one side routinely invokes the Second Amendment as a form of swagger and intimidation, not-so-coyly conflating rights with threats.
- The I.R.S. also is accused of improperly blocking investigations of drug-dealing and other crimes by routinely invoking the confidentiality of tax returns.
- The words routinely invoked to laud Mr. Powers's talent - "dizzily cerebral," "challenging" "difficult" - betray not love but suspicion.
- Climatologists are now routinely invoking the Arctic Oscillation in their official public explanations for extremes of weather.
- Today the brain-disease model is widely accepted in the addiction field, and Barry R. McCaffrey, the White House drug adviser, routinely invokes it.
- The report added that leading Iraqi politicians and officials "routinely invoke the threat of outside interference"-from bordering Iran-"to justify their behavior or evade responsibility for their failures."
- Faith was the largest difference: the Palestinians routinely invoked religion to invest personal trauma with social meaning, whereas the Bosnians did not consider religion significant to their life.
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