"invoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That is also why Churchill's image was so often invoked in the days after the 9/11 attacks.
- In 1996, the act was invoked after the Khobar Towers bombing although ultimately no funds were obligated under it.
- In 2001, act was invoked immediately after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
- Many signs - odd animal behavior, strange light in the sky, tidal forces - tend to be invoked after the fact.
- She is also invoked after childbirth on the sixth day of each month until the child reaches puberty, especially when the child is sick.
- He was invoked after the creation of the world within the sky, and was directed to give man all his knowledge.
- Some of his quotations, invoked in book after book, have a certain shopworn quality.
- It was also invoked after the next critical in-flight failure, which occurred on the Apollo 13 lunar mission in April 1970.
- The Commission's original proposal provided for a derogation whereby the design right could no longer be invoked against such use after a period of three years.
- Until recently, the rule was usually invoked after college boosters and professional agents gave gifts and cash to athletes.
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