"invoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

invoke verbo

invoke + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 23
invoke one's right • invoke the name • invoke privilege • invoke God • invoke images • ...
(2) name, authority, sanction
Kolokacji: 3
(3) God, image, fear
Kolokacji: 3
(4) power, comparison, function
Kolokacji: 3
(5) feeling, vision
Kolokacji: 2
(6) tradition, value, religion
Kolokacji: 3
(7) method, history, argument
Kolokacji: 3
1. invoke methods = odwołaj się do metod invoke methods
2. invoke history = odwołaj się do historii invoke history
  • Yet the Germans themselves often seem reluctant to invoke history, at least before foreigners.
  • Nationalists everywhere invoke history as self-justification, he writes.
  • But many speakers invoked God, culture or history in arguing against passage of the measure.
  • Where she self-consciously invoked family and history, her fellow performers took their roots for granted and shared a good time.
  • But, then, having invoked American history and myth, Doctorow can't seem to decide what to do with them, either.
  • He is more popularly known for his murals that invoke the spirit and history of the Mexican people.
  • He invokes history to describe the nuclear arms race as having "the unfailing characteristics of a march toward war - that and nothing else."
  • In explaining that conviction, they frequently invoked history.
  • The characters in "Henry VI" may be forever invoking history, family and the church to justify their actions.
  • Serbs are not alone in invoking history in their cause.
3. invoke arguments = odwołaj się do argumentów invoke arguments
invoke + preposición
Kolokacji: 17
invoke in • invoke for • invoke against • invoke to • invoke on • ...
invoke + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 14
frequently invoked • repeatedly invoke • once invoked • regularly invoke • simply invoke • ...

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