(1) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
(2) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
(3) Bastille were 2013's big British breakthrough band, but you'd be hard-pushed to mentally conjure the image of what they actually look like.
(4) Photograph: Mondadori via Getty Images Because that decade was scarred by multiple evils, the phrase can be used to conjure up serial spectres.
(5) But then this isn’t really a team yet, more a working model conjured out of the air by Klopp’s whirling hands on the touchline.
(6) Suárez conjured space on the left of the box and his cross-shot bounced off the post and out to Downing, who sidestepped two defenders before firing a shot that Kenny beat into the path of Kuyt, who poked the ball in from five yards.
(7) Quietly, the children would huddle together and ask each other: “What will you have for breakfast?” And I remember saying: “Maybe an egg or a piece of bread and butter,” and tried to conjure up memories of home.
(8) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
(9) In her journals, Cook conjured her in her mind, and it was someone other than herself.
(10) Young people now may hardly know her, and it is hard today to conjure up the sexiness, the daring, the insolence of some women on screen in the 50s when the Production Code still prevailed.
(11) Obama was politically isolated, unable to conjure broad international support or congressional backing.
(12) I fear that Corbyn is likely to discover, pretty quickly, that the rhetoric of change is easier to conjure than change itself.
(13) And despite the images of backroom deals and leather furniture that a snifter conjures up, whiskey is for everyone.
(14) Their loss has been our gain as the longlist casts a wide net in terms of both geography and tone, ranging from the slimmest of novels – Colm Tóibín's stark, surprising The Testament of Mary conjures the gospel according to Jesus's mother in a mere 100-odd pages – to vast doorstops, playful with genre and form.
(15) He then wins the next point after conjuring a perfect return from a near-perfect serve, after a drop-shot that Nadal returns with not quite enough interest, but clips the top of the net at 30-40 and the game's gone.
(16) "I don't want to be doing plays that are conjuring badness, because they make you feel full of badness.
(17) Kyrgios overcame a back injury and a two-set deficit to somehow conjure a 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 8-6 fourth-round triumph over Andreas Seppi at Melbourne Park on Sunday night.
(18) You cannot conjure your actual personality, which you can remember only vaguely, in a theoretical sense.
(19) Brendan Rodgers' team had made enough chances in a vastly improved second half display to merit the point but arguably Sturridge and certainly Suárez should not have been on the pitch to conjure the late reprieve.
(20) The ghosts of some of those conjured characters seem to inhabit the space.
Invocation
Definition:
(n.) The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being.
(n.) A call or summons; especially, a judicial call, demand, or order; as, the invocation of papers or evidence into court.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trump might claim that the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a national security crisis that justifies his invocation of this law, and imposition of the tariff.
(2) King was 16th on an official programme that included the national anthem, the invocation, a prayer, a tribute to women, two sets of songs and nine other speakers.
(3) Trump scored a powerful rhetorical point when he described watching the Twin Towers collapse – “We saw death and the smell of death was in the air for months,” he said – which left Cruz left awkwardly applauding Trump’s invocation of the terrorist attack and those who died as the New Yorker went on to describe Cruz’s comments as insulting.
(4) I had pins and needles waiting to hear from everyone.” Flags flew at at half-staff and fast-food restaurants joined churches in posting invocations to pray for this community of 22,000 people.
(5) "It started out with an invocation for whales, 'cause the whales are right there in the harbour.
(6) The Meerut rally was a success, he indicates, making an odd gesture, part invocation, part assertion, with a hand pointing heavenwards.
(7) Nevertheless, you can still detect traces of that early history in the ACL’s persistent invocation of “religious freedom” when making its case against same-sex marriage.
(8) There is still time between now and the invocation of article 50 in March 2017 to galvanise a common effort across all the polities of these islands to look for a third way between hard Brexit and no Brexit.
(9) It's true of Hitchens' various grotesque invocations of Islam to justify violence, including advocating cluster bombs because "if they're bearing a Koran over their heart, it'll go straight through that, too".
(10) Invocation of the rule could lead to bizarre spectacles, as the rule bars senators from "divulging the information with respect to which the vote is being taken."
(11) Twelve manipulation tactics were identified through separate factor analyses of two instruments based on different data sources: Charm, Reason, Coercion, Silent Treatment, Debasement, and Regression (replicating Buss et al., 1987), and Responsibility Invocation, Reciprocity, Monetary Reward, Pleasure Induction, Social Comparison, and Hardball (an amalgam of threats, lies, and violence).
(12) The logical use of contrast agents should involve the deliberate invocation of one or more of these mechanisms coupled with the appropriate technique of administration.
(13) At various points in the video, victims of terror attempt to reclaim the bomber’s religious invocations – when he declares “there is no god but Allah”, a man carrying a child on a bus retorts: “You who comes in the name of death, he is the creator of life.” When the bomber says “God is greater”, a schoolteacher responds: “Than those who obey without contemplation.” As the bomber flees, the victims are joined by Hussein al-Jasmi, an Emirati pop star, in a chorus urging people to respond to anger with kindness, and violence with mercy.
(14) The anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has waded into controversy over President Obama’s attempt to bypass Congress on gun control , with an invocation of Star Wars’ evil empire.
(15) The later cognitive P100 and N140 reflect the invocation of distinct processors in conjunction with the behavioral use of the sensory input.
(16) The “or else” hovering behind EC vice-president Frans Timmermans’ admonishments is the eventual invocation of article 7 of the EU treaty and the withdrawal of Poland’s voting rights.
(17) In its verdict on Monday, Efsa said that much of the scientific evidence in France's new submission in January had already been included in a previous 2008 submission to the agency, which concluded at the time "that no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment, was provided that would justify the invocation of a safeguard clause [ban]".
(18) As we look ahead to the likely timetable for the next few years, and with the invocation of article 50 coming up shortly, it is obvious that it will be best if the top team in situ at the time that article 50 is invoked remains there till the end of the process and can also see through the negotiations for any new deal between the UK and the EU27 [the other European Union member states].
(19) He goes after its baffling, mellifluous names – Smintheus, Agyieus, Platanistius, Theoxenius – his pencil languidly scratches, in a whimsical mock-invocation of Apollo from 1975.
(20) Almost every schoolchild of the 1960s was brought up on that speech, with its key invocation, "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.