Presidential candidates, of course, invoke the idea of leadership with special urgency.
And while he kept backpedalling, saying he meant the phrase to invoke the idea there were no skeletons in Obama's closet, one cannot help but wonder.
When left-liberals and socialists issue moral critiques of capitalism, for instance, they almost always invoke the idea that the market rewards an elite at the expense of the less-favored and less-advantaged.
Indeed, wherever I go in the twenty-first century, people are proudly mentally ill, and conversations about mental illness invoke the idea of specialness and the stereotypical mad genius.
In the nineteenth century, urban dwellers went to zoos and parks to invoke the idea of wildness; in the twenty-first century, we buy cans of beans and extra batteries for the flashlight.
There's no calls for some sort of post-industrial personal fulfillment in their labor — very few even invoke the idea that a job should 'mean something.' It's straight out of antiquity — free us from the bondage of our debts and give us a basic ability to survive".
The technology is well suited to that approach, not only in transcribing revisions but also in allowing the user to ask about important themes, "Where did this come from?" Why, for example, did Jefferson and his colleagues invoke the idea of a natural right to pursue happiness, displacing John Locke's idea of a right to property?
Do you understand that?" The Clintons' decision to repeatedly invoke the idea of a Clinton-Obama ticket could serve several goals: to diminish Mr. Obama, of Illinois, in a genteel way, while courting some of his supporters by suggesting that a vote for Mrs. Clinton could ultimately be a vote for him, too.
But, Cohen claims, any justification for such compensation has to invoke the idea of equality of opportunity to welfare.
A slightly different tack is to invoke the idea of coercion by circumstances, specifically coercion by poverty (Annas 1984; Rippon 2014; Torcello & Wear 2000).
