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It’s hard to find any modern examples of the corporate death penalty, but that doesn’t mean critics of abusive business haven’t attempted to invoke it.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

When we tell ourselves stories about warrior elites—and invoke their iconography to inspire and galvanize—we often dismiss and ignore their victims as inconvenient or annoying footnotes.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

Porter’s death has become a rallying point for Los Angeles activists, who regularly invoke his name at Police Commission meetings and protests.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

“It is not enough to invoke ethics in the abstract; robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users and a political system that does not abdicate its responsibility are required,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

“Then we know who’s responsible. Kro—” “Do not invoke the titan lord’s name, Percy. Especially not here, not now.”

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

The very history he so powerfully invokes to explain the 14th Amendment’s origins often becomes, in his jurisprudence, a reason to limit rather than enlarge its reach.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

The Philippines invokes its geographical proximity to the Spratly Islands as the main basis of its claim for part of the grouping.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Revised wording no longer explicitly invokes Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which allows the Security Council to authorize armed force to restore peace.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

Second, the DOJ invokes the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and its requirement that all states must maintain a computerized, statewide voter registration list.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026

Still a third type of answer to Yali invokes the supposed importance of lowland river valleys in dry climates, where highly productive agriculture depended on large-scale irrigation systems that in turn required centralized bureaucracies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But the meaning and power of this particular clause has long been debated and seldom invoked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

The DOJ invoked the presumption of regularity and argued his arrest was part of an anti-terrorism dragnet, which the judge threw out.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

In the two decades since, Purcell has become one of election law’s most invoked doctrines.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

He invoked the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, which says no individual can be "compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself".

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

And then, no matter how much Ranee objected, how many tears she cried, how she begged and invoked her husband's memory, the disaster came.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Instead of invoking an internal decision maker, James proposes focusing directly on the interacting sensory and motor systems that generate behavior.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

That seems like a decent rationale for invoking the corporate death penalty.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

Even more effective are those invoking the name of the world’s greatest investor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

He told the panel he was invoking the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution under the advice of his attorneys.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Thales attempted to understand the world without invoking the intervention of the gods.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan