invocation
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definition
noun
the invocation of new disciplines and methodologies
the action of invoking something or someone for assistance or as an authority.
translation of 'invocation'
noun
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example
Be met not with a Te Deum or an awe-inspiring 'invocation' , but with a chatty ‘Hi-ya, seekers, let's have a friendly time today.’
The parliament will be fully involved in any decision on 'invocation' of the safeguard clauses.
You may make of that what you will, but we find ourselves confronted by the artist's apparently blasé 'invocation' of the beauty of nature and her means of achieving it by destroying nature.
This affinity almost declares itself when he quotes Orwell endorsing Milton's 'invocation' of ‘the known rules of ancient liberty’.
I know that the Prime Minister's 'invocation' of ‘education, education, education’ has become a political cliche, but he is right.
Nevertheless, and despite Justice Kirby's ringing 'invocation' of abiding freedoms, there are some pretty good reasons why the suppression order might well be regarded as appropriate in this case.
All functions, even a lecture in the University, begin with the 'invocation' and even as most men wear Western coats and trousers, no one wears a necktie because it reminds them of the Cross and Christianity.
Make the presentation much more prayerlike, an 'invocation' for the Spirit to help us with our own baptismal vows.
The client then uses its filter registry to invoke the filters during a subsequent method 'invocation' .
There is also the habitual 'invocation' by Chomsky of the precedent of Nazi Germany when discussing Western liberal democracies.
A pre-Christmas service was held at the same venue where an 'invocation' prayer was offered.
his 'invocation' of the ancient powers of Callanish
I reproduce below Duggal's translation of the 'invocation' and the first verse followed by my rendering of the same.
Thanksgiving and public prayer, the 'invocation' of the name of God at the occasion of any major official gathering, are, in the practical behavior of the nation, a token of this very same spirit and inspiration.
Perhaps Brandis's ill-considered 'invocation' of the rise of Nazism will have a salutary effect after all, if it spurs his intended targets among the Greens to study this background further.
The cycle of weekly liturgies, the daily routine of morning prayer and evening song, and the unceasing 'invocation' of the name of Jesus were intimately connected and interactively life-giving as blood cells in a body.
By combining Horatian meter with a simple but passionate 'invocation' of the Christian God, Johnson moves from the world of classical Latin to the prayers and hymns of the early Church Fathers.
his 'invocation' of the ancient mystical powers
The fax of the letter that I received, unlike the version published in the Arabic newspapers has ‘from’ after the 'invocation' of God, and three ellipses showing that the name has been deleted.
As he ended his sermon with a solemn 'invocation' of the Trinity, the angels (in one version it is the stones of a rocky valley) responded ‘Amen, very venerable Bede.’
This 'invocation' , replete with rich mythological allusions, has been an important item in the devotional repertoire of all Kashmir Hindus for the last several decades.
Held at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, the service opened with an 'invocation' partly in Hebrew by a navy rabbi and the hymns, God of Our Fathers and Eternal Father.
Communal politics and sectarianism depends on the creation of religious hatreds and divides, the assertion and 'invocation' of continual self-pity and victim hood.
the 'invocation' of new disciplines and methodologies
The local minister who delivered the 'invocation' declared, ‘Thank you, God, for a president who protects our liberty while others cower behind diplomacy.’
The priestess resumed the 'invocation' with nary a whit of acknowledgment.
The Reverend David Allen, President Allen's brother-in-law, gave the 'invocation' after asking the audience to join in a moment of silence for caregivers and military personnel around the world.
His rather bizarre 'invocation' of the 1998 Waterfront dispute as an example of ‘courage’ in his policy speech can only be justified by this idée fixe.
The arousal of pseudo ‘nationalistic fervour’ by the continuous 'invocation' of a foreign threat as the source of all problems is only the first point of similarity.
In On Belief, Zizek in effect counters Lewis's argument with his 'invocation' of the existential Heidegger.
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