invocation

Examples of invoked

invoked

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

However, the tasks ranged from very elementary cognitive tasks to tasks that invoked higher level cognitive abilities.
To the extent that racial differences could be invoked to explain deviations from expected behavior, no adjustments in basic propositions were required.
Yet, so long as definitions remain vague and the compromise agenda focused on conservation can be invoked, support for the latter is not ruled out.
But even as this seemingly paradigmatic figure continues to be invoked, his role has been just as persistently critiqued.
In some colonies the law on the infringement of the indenture had to be invoked too often.
If the locution contains an argument, an argument evaluation or interpretation mechanism is invoked which updates the agent's mental state accordingly.
To the contrary, uncontrolled dissemination of experimental implants, without evidence that more benefit than harm is invoked to patients, can be coined as unethical behavior.
Throughout the scene important lessons on shrew-taming are invoked as the power relationship between the spouses is clearly established.
Clearly here an axiom of interpretation is being invoked, rather than a bet about the states of mind of the population.
When it could not, the existence of property that was the subject of the suit was invoked to uphold the claims of temple dancing girls.
Assume now that an incident occurs on the subway line; the pieces of knowledge k1 to k4 are (or should be) immediately invoked.
The operational semantics is self-application, that is, the current object is substituted for self in the body of the method which is invoked.
The rest of the computation is represented in a closure, which is invoked only after the first element is consumed.
Now, what should thunkify do if invoked on such a thread?
Sometimes the cyclic scheme seems to be invoked gratuitously.
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