"raise the specter of unemployment"
"he conjured wild birds in the air"
"call down the spirits from the mountain"
"He invoked the law that would save him"
"I appealed to the law of 1900"
"She invoked an ancient law"
"appeal to somebody for help"
"Invoke God in times of trouble"
A broken necklace or a cold in the nose, and they'd be weeping and invoking heaven.
出自: A. Alvarez