Synonyms for invoked
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1. List of paraphrases for "invoked":

   cited, relied, adduced, claimed, asserted, used, pleaded, alleged, raised

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1. Donald Trump:

   Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence 241 years ago, America always affirmed that liberty comes from our creator. Our rights are given to us by God, and no earthly force can ever take those rights away. That is why my administration is transferring power out of Washington and returning that power back where it belongs to the people, our religious liberty is enshrined in the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights. The American founders invoked our creator four times in the Declaration of Independence, said Trump. Benjamin Franklin reminded his colleagues at the Constitutional Convention to begin by bowing their heads in prayer. Inscribed on our currency are the words: ‘In God We Trust.’.

2. John McCain:

   I think it's a dark day in the history of the United States Senate. It's going to happen. It's interesting that Republicans were dead set against it when my former colleague Harry Reid invoked it with the judges, but now it seems to be OK.

3. The FARC:

   Paramilitarism is no ghost invoked by the insurgency.

4. Dick Durbin:

   I gave Republicans ample time to make their arguments in the committee, i was prepared to give them even more time until the two-hour rule was invoked. But someone on the other side decided to force my hand. I had to act quickly.

5. Bennie Thompson:

   It’s important to note that even if a President has formally invoked executive privilege regarding testimony of a witness—which is not the case here—that witness has the obligation to sit down under oath and assert the privilege question by question, but these witnesses didn’t even bother to show up.