verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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The program can also invoke your favourite bitmap editor as soon as a screen is captured.
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Also invoked against childhood diseases and physical abuse.
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Also invoked against appendicitis, intestinal disease, and seasickness.
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Also invoked against eye trouble and foxes.
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Also invoked against leg disorders and vermin.
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She is also invoked against injuries.
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Also invoked against disasters and plagues.
■ NOUN
act
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Although the upper house may reject it again, the Government can now invoke the Parliament Act to force the measure through.
amendment
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Boelens invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when he refused to answer questions at a creditors meeting on Monday.
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Simpson can not invoke Fifth Amendment protection for himself because he already has been acquitted of murder.
clause
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If that happens; and the White Sox don't have to invoke the clause .
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Congress also invoked the Equal Protection Clause in support of the act, but this was not considered by the Court.
disease
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Also invoked against childhood diseases and physical abuse.
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Also patron of sailors; he is invoked against intestinal disease and seasickness.
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She is invoked against bacterial diseases and thunderstorms.
jurisdiction
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In addition to any statutory rights of appeal, there may be a right to invoke the inherent supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court.
law
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In the early days of the Bonn Republic members of the higher courts freely invoked a revived Natural Law .
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Other states with federal forests harmed by Opal also have invoked the new salvage-timber law .
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In practice it has never had to invoke this law .
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The company writes to the culprits, invoking the copyright laws as it reads them.
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The principle of copyright remains sound, but invoking it in cyberspace may be like invoking trespass laws in the Old West.
name
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He had invoked his name in the hope that it would silence Manning and stop his questioning.
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Novels, newspapers and films feed the public with the ideas of a Freud without ever invoking his name .
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I had to invoke your sacred name before he would agree to do it.
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An older man chants a prayer and invokes the name of Jerusalem.
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Labour had now the most natural of themes, invoking the almost sacred name of Nye Bevan.
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They invoked the names of the founding fathers.
procedure
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The governors of one school said they might invoke opting-out procedure to avoid the school's becoming co-educational.
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Is the dispute resolution procedure invoked ? 3 Who can invoke the dispute resolution procedure and how?
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Both voted to invoke the procedure by which a school seeks to become grant-maintained.
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It is not surprising that, in those circumstances, very few tenants are invoking the arbitration procedures .
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The user must write software to set up the appropriate input parameters and invoke the required procedure .
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It is a simple extension of that approach to then use methods to invoke pieces of procedure and function.
process
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Transfers between databases invoke lengthy processes and have subsidiary backup and archiving implications.
rule
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In order to invoke the rule against prior restraint, the defendant must state on affidavit his intention to justify the allegation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Judge Pregerson, in his dissent, invoked an individual's right to be left alone.
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Rev. Moran invoked a blessing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fole and the others help him complete his designs, and subsequently assist in invoking the spirits.
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I invoked all the Lord Cardinal's power to organise a search for you.