invocation

Examples of invoking

invoking

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

Exactly what could be gained in 1891 by invoking the mid-century?
He does not see a way of defining 'creation ' without invoking the notion of existence after non-existence.
In this section we ask whether the constructions at hand might be more profitably analyzed without invoking movement.
This group explored the concept of spiritual correspondences (having an invisible lover cohabiting one's body - a concept invoking transmigration) and sought a promised land.
Psychologists handle this issue by invoking the concept of reward, a cornerstone for many general theories of learning.
Invoking such remedies relied on positive law rather than the dangerous abstractions inherent in natural law theory.
The first technique raises the cost of establishing a handler scope, while the second raises the cost of invoking an exception.
This invoking another's words allows speakers then to respond with their own words.
The normalised types are then compared in a bottom-up traversal, while invoking the multi-set partitioning algorithm at each level.
Hall 1996 claims that the foremost instrument for the construction of one's identity is invoking difference.
Her first tactic is to try to reignite his emotions by invoking past happiness.
One of these songs particularly captures the association of the railroad with crossroads mythology by invoking the dilemma of decision-making.
Although the state might decide to criminalize hate speech, hate speech might be regulated without invoking the criminal law.
Functional isomorphism, meanwhile, is readily preserved between spatial objects/scenes and their representations without invoking replicas.
They highlight the danger of invoking static cognitive models as an explanatory framework because they cannot be "straightforwardly related" (target article, sect. 3.2, para. 10).
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