As the English "charm" does, this noun kêlêsis can mean "appeal" but also something explicitly magical, a spell or conjuration.
Municipalities usually provide some means to appeal the assessment before it becomes final, but the results of such appeals are often inconsequential.
"The emphasis that foundation degrees place on work-based learning means they appeal to students.
When Obama says it, he means to appeal to something more than international law or those abstract legal principles that American exceptionalism supposedly minimizes.
That means its appeal doesn't just extend to ideological supporters of jihad – it also draws in those who are sick and tired of war.
"We have a means to appeal and we will do that, beside that we need to look at the rules.
It was a rehearsed entreaty meant to appeal to thousands of frustrated manufacturing workers and their bosses in Rust Belt states.
That means, the appeals court judges said, that federal courts are forbidden for now to hear challenges to the health care law.
And it means he appeals to everybody.
Thus, the appeal to nature tended to mean an appeal to human nature treated as a source for norms of conduct.
