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    1. She could invoke its Mind Control Plugin and tell Kandhi to do just that


    2. To invoke fascination fulfill another’s wishes which could not be granted


    3. For Aura law dictated that upon the death of a spouse, the husband could invoke the next sister in line to take her place


    4. Fear that he would invoke the law forced Sonia to confide in her sister’s best friend, Altera


    5. Principal Hartman said was supposed to invoke thought


    6. His soft clean skin sparkled As he assumed a momentary posture that might invoke A rapturous cry from his audience


    7. She sought only to provoke interest and invoke thought, Maybe create, also, a bit of stylish mystery


    8. But to Invoke whatever they were Invoking, they had to move in certain ways, and that gave them away


    9. A Priest might invoke enough to Heal two or three, but after such a conflict as had just occurred, the power of the Serrenites would be spread too thin


    10. I wonder if John had a similar problem understanding at what group or age he was directed to invoke this particular warning? After all he did seem to understand that the vision had directed him to issue an advisory, “For the time is near” as introduction to the whole message

    11. Is it possible for it to invoke some kind of condition that could render it capable of a separate existence beyond the brain, as has been postulated for the soul?


    12. Nor was he afraid to invoke the Creator


    13. execution of a procedure, and therefore will invoke a function (procedure) in the receiving object that generates


    14. You dare invoke my late husband’s memory


    15. date) and the SEC where I refused to invoke the Fifth Amendment


    16. Scientists thus invoke external limits of simplicity, mathematical elegance, severe tests, and other things in an attempt to further reduce degeneracy, but these attempts are ad hoc and send us back to metaphysics


    17. Being unfamiliar then implies that something is not a familiar sub-category of something that is familiar, where the familiar in question must automatically invoke sub-cat-


    18. “And this is spreading around the world! Those are the Princes and Princesses over there with Alilia, and they tell me that millions of elves from all over the world have asked for permission to come here! Just for a visit, of course! Alilia had to invoke the charters of war to insure that none spoke of any of this to any but elves! She had to actually declare a state of war in order to ensure compliance from the plains elves, just a moment ago!”


    19. Convention may not invoke the application of that provision by any other Party;


    20. God said, "So they shall invoke my name on the sons of Israel,

    21. Their Commander may have been slain but with their numerical advantage their mere sight could still invoke a knee-wobble in even the sternest of men


    22. No democracy to invoke


    23. I spotted the names of gods, enchantments to invoke Ma’at, and some


    24. If we say, ‘they are absolutely murderers’ then it will not invoke any sense of hate but it will be worse if we say, ‘they are like the self- proclaimed purgersof Rome who toppled the throne of Caesar but consequently their real face were unveiled’


    25. The Buddhists use this as a tool to invoke the energy of love


    26. All these branches of the Church, too, invoke the Angelic Hosts to assist in


    27. Truth, words sung or spoken down here invoke higher power-- power out of


    28. However, I’ve found a clause in his contract we can invoke


    29. If not he had said that he would invoke a closure order and the plant would have to stop production until it was made safe


    30. invoke the archangels and angels in your prayers and

    31. invoke the Great Planetary Spirits, and choose a moment when astrological


    32. In spite of al difficulties, the Prophet Moses never ceased to invoke the live, justice and faithfulness of


    33. He fully realized that he could cast himself off the ledge and out into space, and that nothing could happen to harm him provided he would rescind his first great decision not to invoke the interposition of his celestial intelligences in the prosecution of his lifework on Urantia, and provided he would abrogate his second decision concerning his attitude toward self-preservation


    34. For instance, Uncle Fred may invoke uplifting, inspirational feelings of support


    35. However, assurance is given that what has been covered within, is indeed enough to invoke positive and lasting change


    36. Conan gazed over the billowing waves of spears and wondered what new horror the sorcerer would invoke


    37. Those who keep distances, search for a consensus through politically correct attitude and invoke respect for "good manners" as an ultimate weapon to disarm and destroy a colleague or adversary often experience excitement through the reassuring construction of standardized situations


    38. she was amazed to see the soul she did invoke


    39. In marital conflicts, a wife may invoke


    40. I did not invoke it in the old days; I guarded it lest it be used against me

    41. numbers to invoke some action


    42. In the heart of the slumbering hills I have watched Xaltotun commune with the souls of the damned, and invoke the ancient demons of forgotten Acheron


    43. We do not propose to employ our technique of dematerialization; we merely wish to invoke the process of accelerated time


    44. 27 If you invoke race to heighten your cause of mobilizing African Americans, be sure to preserve your full spiritual right to mobilize all races together without discrimination


    45. invoke some of the commands and does something and


    46. I’m sure you can understand how a beautiful woman such as yourself would invoke my emotions, especially since,” he glanced towards the area where Lord Ashburn and Faye were sitting and chatting, “especially since my wife hates me


    47. and Marie not wanting to invoke his ire further, they remained silent


    48. Perform the important intentional requests three times in order to invoke a change


    49. composed a prayer to invoke their angel,


    50. After she chanted to invoke the angels, putting Michael at the foot of her bed to guard her, she finally dropped off











































    1. I don't think they saw her fling down the shovel into the gravel or understood the curses she invoked, but certainly they felt the sting of the grit that flew from her hands and showered them like nettles


    2. It then invoked a deletion routine, removed all trace of itself from the machine and let its digital DNA drift away on the ether that connects electronic super highways to Acacia Avenues the world over


    3. It then invoked a deletion routine, removed all trace of itself from


    4. It invoked boredom


    5. invoked a silent prayer to three or four of his favourite


    6. induced the theory, but inversely, the theory invoked


    7. Still, he is less invoked


    8. I steeled myself against the softening that Ash invoked in me and refused to give in


    9. I had a couple of valiums as I was very nervous, invoked protection from my guides, and then popped a Red Dragon tab


    10. I would swear that they invoked the Absence

    11. They had Invoked the Absence, Barrin knew


    12. They had Invoked Vid


    13. But something stopped him– an unusual feel about the badger's scent invoked his curiosity and he decided to track it


    14. It has been invoked many times, throughout the Cold War and after, as an argument for why the US should always be a superpower and involved whenever the amorphous idea of “national security” is brought up


    15. If others are present though, they may profit from it if memory recall is able to be invoked in an appropriate venue


    16. Whenever greater than average performance became the normal requirement, a regime of diminishing returns would be invoked


    17. line when it is invoked


    18. The above inline function can be invoked by statements like


    19. 7 they invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly besought with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of


    20. You will always be invoked as a reason for hope

    21. To them, it means that you invoked the evil spirits against them”


    22. invoked unnecessary ontological machinery to create the ‘genuine’ doubt that Pyrrhonians


    23. They concentrated on the beauty of Love and invoked His aid


    24. She invoked Love and His aid, and she was free


    25. Madeleine’s name is even invoked here, saying that her abduction could have been avoided if she’d had the chip implanted!”


    26. 7 they invoked the Almighty Lord and ceaselessly besought with tears their merciful God and Father Ruler of all Lord of every power 8 To overthrow the evil purpose which was gone out against them and to deliver them by extraordinary manifestation from that death which was in store for them


    27. As his gaze swept across the wild stampede in front of him, it invoked the dream where he drove many animals, as he screeched, “Faster! Faster!” It had then turned into people he drove


    28. As his gaze swept across the wild stampede in front of him, it invoked the dream where he


    29. We’ve already read how the Messiah was invoked as an engraved stone in the last dream, dealing with the priesthood of the Lord Jesus


    30. She left, they later parleyed further, the law was invoked to perform its functions, he'd packed his things—less efficiently than she, perhaps—and left in turn

    31. When Niels Bohr invoked the complementarity principle, which basically states that the reality of electrons or photons cannot be reduced to a (1d) particle concept or a (1d) wave concept, he edged Science out of a purely linear approach


    32. Bohr’s complementarity principle is not mathematically derived from quantum theory — it was invoked on an intuitive basis to explain the conflicting theories which arose from experimental results


    33. She invoked to the dark forces of Zoroastro, the Enchantress Zarnia and the Magician Abramelim, summoned to their marvelous and perverse powers so that the potion lull the senses of the young woman and preventing her to locate the counter-conjuration, maintaining her in a dreaming state, at least until the five days had passed and the demons arrive


    34. The elder stood firm putting up resistance and with an authoritarian voice, which I had not heard of till then, invoked the powers of the Brotherhood and demanded that he returned to the caves of his world


    35. Yeshua supposes he shouldn’t have invoked the prophesy of Isaiah, claiming to be the chosen one—but he is! And they must know it! Now they will


    36. When Suresh took his turn to serve his father, the swamiji invoked that his hands be forever blessed to serve humanity at large


    37. When they reached the deity for darshan, the pujari too invoked the blessings of the Lord as he would for a married couple


    38. technology to determine sex in utero, a variety of superstitions were invoked to indicate the gender of the unborn child


    39. Olmec spoke further, of dark and mysterious matters, of black magic and wizardry conjured out of the black night of the catacombs, of weird creatures invoked out of darkness for horrible allies


    40. rules often invoked by the mother to protect the daughter or to protect the mother's

    41. Yet another dualism is invoked: you either have a disorder or you don't


    42. It invoked Directive Eight at our request


    43. Rev Schwartz testified to the punishment he had already invoked


    44. Machine, despite all the furor it invoked and all the labor that


    45. He invoked the memory of the way American veterans returning from Vietnam and the wars in the middle east were so shabbily treated by an ungrateful government more intent on giving tax breaks for its wealthiest supporters than it was in properly funding programs for veterans


    46. 19 Apparently, his white listeners also enjoyed his insensitive minstrel-like stories about African Americans that heavily invoked the N-word


    47. She invoked “y’all” several times and made quite an impression on the 13 year old she lectured


    48. invoked automatically each time an object of that class is initiated


    49. constructor is invoked by matching the number, types and


    50. This reverend, in his tranquil country setting, was free of those pains and trials; he would have difficulty in relating to those conditions and the endurance such an experience invoked in a man of the cloth, for if ever he doubted the ways of the Lord, his experiences had reiterated his faith in His guidance













































    1. ‘But if he invokes compurgation and I’m required to


    2. Israel will be joined unto someone who falsely invokes the name of Hashem, while the Antichrist takes unto himself God’s people


    3. (this analogy also invokes mathematics


    4. Another invokes the idea of “Spaceship Earth” and


    5. But it’s not entirely satisfying to toss off an answer that invokes


    6. The priest invokes this Lord to bring the people together like nets bring together the ears of maize


    7. One invokes one’s birth nagual for protection, guidance, and blessing


    8. Jaynes says that when Homer invokes the Muse (“Sing Muse and through me tell the story”) he is requesting that those voices assist him in creating the poem he is about to speak


    9. Look at God's messenger (cpth), Master of the creation, how he fears and invokes such invocation so as to preserve his spirit's pureness


    10. So, look at God’s messenger (cpth), master of creation, how he is afraid and invokes such a prayer so as to preserve his own spirit’s clarity and pureness

    11. Somehow, I still sensed that something I could not quite figure out, but which invokes abnormal air, was circling in on me


    12. The conscious refusal to go along with your weakness is what invokes and finally delivers real inner-strength


    13. On the other hand some followers of Christianity would describe purgatory as being the spiritual process that invokes the purification and purging of transgressions through personal Self reflection, increased awareness, and as a result of this, Self improvement


    14. Human death, a death that invokes the horrifying prospective of the possible inevitable transition into the unknown world of the ‘afterlife’ is the architect of a Creator who would not possess unconditional love? Is the architect of a Creator who would not have infinite compassion, and judge infinitely justly? The Creator of human sickness, pain, suffering and death, a ‘God’ who made such human experience, would be a Creator who would not be infinitely sympathetic?


    15. Indeed, this information invokes concepts and dimensions that are incredibly interesting, yet, difficult to comprehend from a human perspective


    16. Human evolution from primates is information that advocates some explanation and understanding of atrocious human behaviours, but which can never justify such behaviour, but invokes human accountability when adding it to the mix of human consciousness, intellect, thought, emotion and freewill


    17. He invokes, instead of God, what can neither harm him nor benefit him


    18. He invokes one whose harm is closer than his benefit


    19. Whoever invokes another god besides God-he has no proof thereof-his reckoning rests with his Lord


    20. Who is more wrong than him who invokes, besides God, those who will not answer him until the Day of Resurrection, and are heedless of their prayers?

    21. About her I won't speak; and I don't desire to think; but I earnestly wish she were invisible: her presence invokes only maddening sensations


    22. All the pious ideas that had been so long forgotten, returned; he recollected the prayers his mother had taught him, and discovered a new meaning in every word; for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven! He prayed, and prayed aloud, no longer terrified at the sound of his own voice, for he fell into a sort of ecstasy


    23. Releasing his thumbs, he invokes grace from on high with large wave gestures and proclaims with bloated pomp:)


    24. His very size invokes them all


    25. The torn, split, wounded girl cries, struggles, invokes me to her rescue, and endeavours to get from under the young savage, or shake him off, but alas! in vain: her breath, might as soon have strength to have quelled his rough assault, or put him out of his course


    26. The object that invokes the command is decoupled from the object that knows how to perform it


    27. His recent glory he invokes


    28. also invokes sleep (Part 2, Act 2, Sc


    1. Alas, the bank’s method will surely be supported by their highly paid lawyers invoking court procedures


    2. But to Invoke whatever they were Invoking, they had to move in certain ways, and that gave them away


    3. Sage has historically been used in smudging rituals as a means of invoking purification, protection, longevity, and immortality


    4. statements invoking his right to interpret the law on everything from whistleblower protections to how


    5. preventing law suits that are instituted to stop construction and limiting the law suits invoking the environmental laws to existing or operating facilities or exempting the oil companies from complying with the environmental rules and regulations


    6. Pass a law that will limit the law - suits placed invoking the various environmental laws to existing and operating facilities


    7. it is hardly better than invoking Gods and Demons, but is presumably


    8. directedness, we could easily explain the results through other theories that do not require invoking a seemingly mysterious domain of physical


    9. They all concentrated and, invoking Satan (one of the names of the Great Beast), began to wish very strongly that the girls immediately die


    10. What President Obama was doing was heavily invoking God unawares

    11. may, by invoking Thy holy name, receive health


    12. “One Who Collects Water, I am invoking elgad-shaderrou


    13. “We are invoking elgad-shaderrou


    14. “As I said, we are invoking elgad-shaderrou


    15. Meanwhile, I couldn’t even be near Anubis without invoking the wrath of his chaperone—Shu, the god of hot air


    16. You can produce the most out of search engines by invoking a suitable SEO strategy


    17. By invoking the names of her famous in-laws, she reminded the others that the balance of power had shifted when she entered the room


    18. Invoking help from others


    19. ” The God above isn’t at all happy with all the invoking of His name in times of battle


    20. � What was the General Staff thinking when they let not one, but two women participate in a combat mission in France on Sunday?� How many additional risks did our brave Royal Commandos had to take in order to protect two women who had no business in combat?� Furthermore, on what grounds are these women going to be decorated?� As usual with Miss Laplante, the War Office refused to provide any details about her, invoking military secrecy

    21. How? By invoking the principle of Nationalism


    22. Its mouth spoke to him in Greek invoking God’s explanation


    23. can be openly questioned without invoking the wrath of one’s peers


    24. Now, she and Ethan did the chants over and over, invoking their protection for her and for all of them as they worked at the trailer


    25. It's quite likely that the tattoos were part of invoking Gods to bring healing on his life


    26. Confused quietness and sad silence prevailed in the country, they raised their hands supplicating God, invoking Him from the depth of their hearts and begging Him to drive away this carnage from them:


    27. Having been raised in these cultures of marshal music, protest marches employ the same cadence, thus invoking a sense of battle even when demonstrating for peace


    28. “Like invoking my Miranda rights?” The bound one replied, repressing a bit of a smile, as a security bot tore off the T-word Shirt she was wearing which read, How come $ never goes to jail for the things it says and does?


    29. started by invoking it three times a day,


    30. invitation again) by invoking all the Angels and

    31. In the mornings when I am invoking


    32. That is why messenger Mohammad (cpth) said invoking God: "O, God of all! May you not let a disbeliever be an obligor to me, lest my heart will love him"


    33. By invoking him and binding myself to him I could make myself feel as though skewers of metal were piercing my flesh or fiery currents were spreading inside my body, and in this way I could perform these miracles – which are in reality only tricks – without the firebrands, the glass or the skewers affecting me at all


    34. This is what I said, invoking them with sweet words:


    35. No, it couldn't be possible really that Miles, already at that time in Holy Orders, and without his sister knowing anything about it, and after saying family prayers before breakfast, and after taking the Morning Service in his vicar's church, and after eating his midday meal and invoking God's blessing on it, should have sallied out and sinned


    36. Great-Aunt Ruby had varied it from year to year, sometimes focusing on the harvest, sometimes concentrating on invoking the spirits of our ancestors


    37. After facing the four quarters and once again invoking the deities of each direction, I went to the altar Tobias and a few others had erected in the center of the circle


    38. Perhaps it is time this fancy platitude was turned on those invoking it


    39. something unpleasant, invoking the smell of putrefaction and


    40. music rose into the air invoking ancient tunes of aboriginal

    41. You can always override this during development by passing the desired target on the command line when invoking Ant


    42. When invoking them


    43. can’t really discipline him on his hygiene without invoking an employment tribunal


    44. What animal possessed the ability of invoking such horror as this?


    45. “It does matter! Sithias said you are safe here for now, and I’m invoking the debt to keep you here another five months


    46. Lothario, terrified and breathless, ran in haste to pluck out the dagger; but when he saw how slight the wound was he was relieved of his fears and once more admired the subtlety, coolness, and ready wit of the fair Camilla; and the better to support the part he had to play he began to utter profuse and doleful lamentations over her body as if she were dead, invoking maledictions not only on himself but also on him who had been the means of placing him in such a position: and knowing that his friend Anselmo heard him he spoke in such a way as to make a listener feel much more pity for him than for Camilla, even though he supposed her dead


    47. There will be no invoking the Twenty-Fifth Amendment


    48. During that year just before Nixon was to give his famous “Checkers” speech invoking the family dog and Pat’s cloth coat to stay on the ticket as Ike’s vice presidential running mate, Burger, then the Minnesota Republican leader, and his wife, Vera, sent Nixon a word of encouragement


    49. While the media noted that I appeared to be invoking my own family’s experience on the House floor, the truth was I was angered almost as much for my girlfriend, Kate Lowenstein, who had lost her father—well-known New York civil rights and antiwar activist Allard Lowenstein—to gun violence almost exactly sixteen years before, in March of 1980, when she was just nine years old


    50. WE FINISHED UP our field hearings and finalized our bill, which we decided to name boldly by invoking the name of the late Senator Paul Wellstone














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    Synonyms for "invoke"

    appeal invoke arouse bring up call down call forth conjure conjure up evoke put forward raise stir enforce implement quote appeal to bid effect refer to supplicate call up entreat beseech beg

    "invoke" definitions

    summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic


    cite as an authority; resort to


    request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection