The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked
It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.
When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.
From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security. . . .
[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.
The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will.
I only invoked what you already knew.
God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.
Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart; and invoking with an absence of self-awareness because of absorption in the Invoked is the invocation of the Self - this is the hidden invocation!
An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.
Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.
Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
