invocation
ਮੰਗਲਾਚਰਨ
definition
noun
the invocation of new disciplines and methodologies
the action of invoking something or someone for assistance or as an authority.
example
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.
In On Belief, Zizek in effect counters Lewis's argument with his 'invocation' of the existential Heidegger.
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.
his 'invocation' of the ancient powers of Callanish
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.
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.
An excerpt from the landmark Supreme Judicial Court decision that legalized gay marriage was read as an 'invocation' at the Unitarian Universalist church.
I know you can attempt an experimental structure for a poem, even try a mindmap I suppose, but the best 'invocation' of a thought is still transferred from human to human by words and nicely structured words are best.
There is also the habitual 'invocation' by Chomsky of the precedent of Nazi Germany when discussing Western liberal democracies.
‘Purge the evil,’ some chanted in Chinese, a common Falun Gong 'invocation' .
That may not be the most compelling reason to stop the war, but it should certainly temper her teary-eyed 'invocation' of soldier mythology.
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 affinity almost declares itself when he quotes Orwell endorsing Milton's 'invocation' of ‘the known rules of ancient liberty’.
I reproduce below Duggal's translation of the 'invocation' and the first verse followed by my rendering of the same.
the 'invocation' of new disciplines and methodologies
The parliament will be fully involved in any decision on 'invocation' of the safeguard clauses.
It may even have been a fine speech - his closing passage, with its 'invocation' of his family's suffering under Hitler, was unusual and quietly emotional.
The most recent 'invocation' came during a press conference this week in which the CPC Central Committee's Organization Department deputy head Li Jingtian fielded questions from the press.
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.
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.
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 client then uses its filter registry to invoke the filters during a subsequent method 'invocation' .
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.
The local minister who delivered the 'invocation' declared, ‘Thank you, God, for a president who protects our liberty while others cower behind diplomacy.’
The opening line of the 'invocation' is, ‘In faith that we are Buddha, we enter Buddha's Way.’
Geoff was back, the 'invocation' and anthem were over, and it was time to go racing.
The Family Research Council has sought to clarify its position on prayers uttered before Congress after an article in its online publication criticized a precedent-breaking 'invocation' by a Hindu priest.
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.
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.
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