Such paternalistic arguments are sometimes augmented by invoking historical data that show casinos, restaurants, and other cash-based businesses to be particularly susceptible to embezzlement or to being co-opted by organized crime.
In a meeting in Rabin's office, I invoked historical examples from different wars when armies had suspended fighting for the holidays, and suggested that as a Christmas gesture Israel should allow Red Cross doctors to visit the deportees.
"Quite a bit of human solidarity has been sacrificed in pursuit of preserving some kind of imagined purity," she writes, invoking historical laws against sodomy and the forced sterilization of poor women.
Iranian hardliners harbour deep suspicions of Britain, often invoking historical events, such as the 1953 MI6-engineered coup against Iran's first democratically elected prime minister, to express doubts about British intentions today.
An important alternative approach, "pluralism", invokes historical contingency and developmental and genetic constraints, in addition to natural selection, as important causes of the evolution of a trait.
Native American tribes have invoked historical treaty rights.
Invoking historical representations of female deities and animistic spirits, Mori embodies Kichijoten, the Japanese Buddhist female deity of beauty who humorously, yet self-referentially, imbues the video Nirvana, 1997-98, with it's exquisite balance and restraint.
Francis, who had never before visited the United States, called himself "a son of the continent," and invoked historical lessons from four American figures — Abraham Lincoln, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two U.S. Catholic leaders, the Cistercian monk Thomas Merton and the labor activist Dorothy Day.
And there are strained analogies that attempt to invoke the historical record to make a case for war against Iraq.
