Invoking Sentence Examples

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  • Invoking Bloody Mary is a popular game for girls at sleepovers and horror movies.

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  • Primal Life, who is properly speaking the Mandaean god, has the same predicates as the primal spirit, and every prayer, as well as every section of the sacred books, begins by invoking him.

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  • Now from the clearing house importers were rigorously excluded, and on invoking the aid of " futures," therefore, they were penalized to the extent of double broker's commission, one commission being charged on the sale of the " futures " and one on their purchase back.

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  • So late as the 10th and iith centuries we find certain texts invoking the Salic Law, but only in a vague and general way; and it would be rash to conclude from this that the Salic Law was still in force.

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  • They were called the " media of the whole circle of the zodiac "; 11 each ten-day period of the Egyptian year was consecrated to the decanal god whose section of the ecliptic rose at its commencement; the body was correspondingly apportioned, and disease was cured by invoking the zodiacal regent of the part affected.

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  • By his divorce from Isabella of Gloucester he offended the English baronage (1200); by his marriage with Isabella of Angouleme, the betrothed of Hugh of Lusignan, he gave an opportunity to the discontented Poitevins for invoking French assistance and to Philip Augustus for pronouncing against him a sentence of forfeiture.

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  • After vainly invoking the aid of the emperor Frederick I., the young king came to terms with Louis (1160), whose daughter was betrothed to Henry's namesake and heir.

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  • When at the beginning of 1823, as a result of the congress of Verona, the French invaded Spain,' "invoking the God of St Louis, for the sake of preserving the throne of Spain to a descendant of Henry IV., and of reconciling that fine kingdom with Europe," and in May the revolutionary party carried Ferdinand to Cadiz, he continued to make promises of amendment till he was free.

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  • In Edinburgh she was received by a yelling mob, which flaunted before her at each turn a banner representing the corpse of Darnley with her child beside it invoking on his knees the retribution of divine justice.

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  • On this basis, the anomalies described by Pye become explicable without invoking aliens from outer space.

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  • In the cave were found clay figurines invoking the blessing of children and women pregnant or giving birth.

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  • If the target interpreter for the alias is the invoking interpreter then an empty list is returned.

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  • However, a challenge to this decision could be effected by invoking the wardship jurisdiction of the High Court.

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  • And now I'm in flight--pursued by furies of my own invoking--threatened with love in its most hideous form-- matrimony!

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  • This symbolic role functioned relative to notions of social organization, delineating or invoking the fundamental limits of social praxis.

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  • Apache HTTP Server Version 1.3 Starting Apache Invoking Apache The httpd program is usually run as a daemon which executes continuously, handling requests.

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  • Informal means (a letter, tear-off slip ), will always be tried to achieve compliance before invoking formal procedures.

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  • Accordingly the default provisions of invoking the relevant stipulations of Part II of the Scheme apply to the time for payment.

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  • That move provoked US TV evangelist Pat Robertson to warn the town was invoking the wrath of God.

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  • Modern critics of his work note that he made no attempt to understand the oriental religions which he attacked, and censure him for invoking the aid of the Inquisition and sanctioning persecution of the Nestorians in Malabar.

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  • It regarded itself as justified in invoking the power of the state to suppress heresy by civil pains and penalties, including even torture and death.

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  • Informal means (a letter, tear-off slip), will always be tried to achieve compliance before invoking formal procedures.

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  • Invoking the specter of dual loyalty to mute criticism and debate amounts to more than the everyday pollution of public discourse.

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  • Bergamot - Helps to fight depression and sadness by invoking feelings of optimism and well-being.

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  • In most cases, a Christian purity promise ring is given to the individuals invoking the promise either from the sponsoring church or their parents.

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  • Join hands and offer a prayer of forgiveness and one of thanks, invoking God in whatever form you believe Him or Her to take in order to surround yourselves with the force and power of light and good.

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  • Artist Mary GrandPré returns to the world of Harry Potter, invoking the imagination with her own sense of magic and mystery.

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  • Thus for the 7th, 14th, 21 st, 28th and also the 19th days of the intercalary Elul it is prescribed that "the shepherd of many nations is not to eat meat roast with fire nor any food cooked by fire, he is not to change the clothes on his body nor put on gala dress, he may not bring sacrifices nor may the king ride in his chariot, he is not to hold court nor may the priest seek an oracle for him in the sanctuary, no physician may attend the sick room, the day is not favourable for invoking curses, but at night the king may bring his gift into the presence of Marduk and Ishtar.

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  • Being intended for the Hotri's use, both these works treat exclusively of the hymns and verses recited by that priest and his assistants, either in the form of connected litanies or in detached verses invoking the deities to whom oblations are made, or uttered in response to the.

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  • There was a rule to generate a.P file by invoking the compiler appropriately.

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  • At the same time, since the invoking of the divine powers was the essential element in the incantations, in order to make the magic formulae as effective as possible, a large number of the old local deities are introduced to add their power to the chief ones; and it is here that the astral system comes into play through the introduction of names of stars, as well as through assigning attributes to the gods which clearly reflect the conception that they have their seats in the heavens.

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  • The commercial and naval successes of the Genoese during the middle ages were the more remarkable because, unlike their rivals, the Venetians, they were the unceasing prey to intestine discord - the Genoese commons and nobles fighting against each other, rival factions amongst the nobles themselves striving to grasp the supreme power in the state, nobles and commons alike invoking the arbitration and rule of some foreign captain as the sole means of obtaining a temporary truce.

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