When I use inshaAllah or assalamu alaikum or habibti, I am attempting to invoke a shared heritage, to lay claim to a common history.
Fulton-Brown acknowledges that white supremacists are using medieval imagery in their protests in attempts to invoke a mythical, purely white medieval Europe.
There has been speculation that the UK may try to invoke a little-used "national interest" defence to block attempts to curb bonuses.
Water-park names seem like a hysterical attempt to invoke nature, almost as a magic incantation, in the service of something unnatural, maybe even antinatural.
But UK Independence Party MEP Godfrey Bloom said it was an attempt "to invoke voodoo sociology in the service of a bigger and interfering state".
Sadly, we in the West have failed miserably in this regard, unless of course one counts taking smiling selfies for a BuzzFeed piece as an attempt to invoke fear in the hearts of the enemy.
There was an attempt to invoke Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights – the right to a home – but the council's lawyers batted that one away pretty easily: "Homelessness happens to many members of the community," they said, accurately.
In addition, while designed to protect the police, all citizens can attempt to invoke this law to justify a killing.
Mr. Lazio's attempt to invoke Mario M. Cuomo, the Democratic governor who lost a bid for a fourth term in 1994, to discredit Mrs. Clinton also seems problematic.
In both Dee's ecological musings and Leach's relentlessly winsome jeux d'esprit, such ascriptions of mind to life forms and the elements can be read as an attempt to invoke sympathy with the natural world, which might work more successfully for some readers than a straightforward harangue.
