He has invoked extremist, Cold War rhetoric to demonise conservationists and environmentalists.
George Osborne invoked his oath to tell the truth before a committee of MPs as he attempted to dismiss allegations that his decision to veto a currency union with an independent Scotland was a short-term campaigning tactic.
The best argument against Scottish independence may be Alex Salmond, who seems to have a surer grasp of Braveheart than of the complicated issues about North Sea oil and currency union invoked by the No campaign.
Indeed, a motif of the evening was "the darkened room" invoked by David Cameron and Miliband as the place where principled manifesto commitments would be bartered away in coalition talks.
When it went straight on to the front page of the Evening Standard in London, No 10 invoked its family privacy rights.
Instead, whenever Kennedy's name has been invoked on topical news shows – by half-assed comedians, by too many members of the public – it has been followed by a joking reference to his drinking problem.
There's a lot of sloppy talk going around this country that there should be no place... for the Alan Bonds Bob Hawke Even those 80s cultural productions that weren't actually set in the 50s often invoked that decade's atmosphere: think of the return of rockabilly, the renewed popularity of Superman, the endless remakes of West Side Story.
Sexual abuse of children was found to be "chronically undisclosed and under-reported", and in some remote communities "traditional beliefs and values are sometimes invoked to justify and sanction sexual contact between adult men and underage girls".
In one planning meeting last month, Westminster council lost £29m on three housing schemes after developers invoked the new rules.
Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, invoked Arquette while addressing a Silicon Valley conference on Tuesday, two days after the Oscar-winner's speech.
In 1996, Howard invoked a very similar free market anti-elitism to defeat Paul Keating in that year's election and deployed it with devastating effect in the culture wars that accompanied his long reign.
