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invoked
adjective as in enforced
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Example Sentences
Beiser clearly has not been convicted of a crime, which rules out one avenue for invoking the removal process.
A president can, in extreme cases, invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act to use the military for law enforcement.
It spoke to imminent arrest warrants while invoking another government-sounding entity.
In October 2017, a Bismarck police officer invoked Marsy’s Law after shooting and wounding a man who he said punched him and gouged his eyes.
You also don’t need to invoke Marsbot with a “hotword” like “Hey Google.”
Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent.
That idea is often invoked in regards to the tricks memory plays, but I wonder how it might come into play in other ways.
Its blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty, is frequently invoked and just as frequently misused.
More clumsily, fireworks stand in for the Big Bang and a potato and peas are invoked to explain relativity.
The juror is said to have invoked common sense in the face of the statutes as codified by the State of Illinois.
Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy name is invoked: and upon Israel, whom thou hast raised up to be thy firstborn.
The oath is a solemn appeal to God, invoked as witness, that some statement made is true.
The reason why these saints are invoked as a group is said to have been an epidemic which devastated Europe from 1346 to 1349.
The divinities whom he invoked he celebrated with rites corresponding with those traits which they represented.
You shake the sky, as if on the search for food; you are invoked by many, like the solar horse of the day.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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