0 to use a law in order to achieve something, or to mention something in order to explain something or to support your opinion or action:
1 to call on something or someone, esp. God, for help
2 to cause something to be used; bring into effect:
Rather than answer the question, the witness invoked the Fifth Amendment against incriminating himself.
3 to use something such as a law to help you when you want to do something:
Unfortunately, as he himself admits, the notion of presence he invokes is not abundantly clear.
The reader as médisant who might criticize love and speak against it, after all, is a figure he himself invokes.
At a more sophisticated level, computerised methods of a technique known as discriminant analysis can be invoked.
Even if we do not limit the notion of tolerance by invoking moral norms, we are always limited by moral norms.
Legal models were invoked, certain entitlements under a will, to illuminate a moral notion.
However, invoking these corrective rules inappropriately leads to dissimilation.
What is repeatedly invoked is the transformative role of gendered individuals, and apparently only two genders.
I should emphasize that every expression invokes a presupposed viewing arrangement as part of the conceptual substrate that supports its meaning and shapes its form.
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援引,借助(法律), 求助於,借助於(尤指法律或神靈), 喚起,引起,使記起…
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援引,借助(法律), 求助于,借助于(尤指神灵), 唤起,引起,使记起…
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invocar, evocar, convocar…
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