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• After marriage, the man had anciently (but this was anterior to Christianity) the power of life and death over his wife. She could invoke no law against him; he was her sole tribunal and law.
• The acquisition of a useless part can hardly be said to raise an organism in the natural scale; and in the case of the imperfect, closed flowers, above described, if any new principle has to be invoked, it must be one of retrogression rather than of progression; and so it must be with many parasitic and degraded animals.
• It is easier to invoke or to deplore democracy than to say exactly what it is.
• In certain Christian circles invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.
• This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.
• Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.
• The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another draught.
• Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.
• C++ lets you invoke an operator function either by calling the function or by using the overloaded operator with its usual syntax. — Stephen Prata.