invoke
Example Sentences
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After the firefighters testified over the course of three weeks, city attorneys invoked a general protective order that any party in the litigation can designate testimony as confidential for up to 30 days.
From Los Angeles Times
Designating the company a supply-chain risk and invoking the Defense Production Act would be a nearly unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company, AI and security experts said.
As far as I know, there is no handy accounting of how many times his name was invoked in bits over the years; let’s call it a lot.
From Salon
“It is also telling that in IEEPA’s half century of existence, no president has invoked the statute to impose any tariffs, let alone tariffs of this magnitude and scope,” the ruling continues.
From Salon
Jackson invoked the struggle for workers’ rights, the coal mining strikes, what it meant to go without.
From Salon
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