Mr. Obama noted that Mr. Zimmerman did not invoke that defense.
Conceivably, Prime Minister David Cameron's government could yet follow through on its warning to Ecuador before the asylum decision that it might invoke an obscure British law that would empower it to suspend the embassy's immunity and send the police in to arrest Mr. Assange.
— Julia Moskin The New Yorker: A fanciful list of restaurant transgressions that might invoke health-department penalties: hostesses seating diners right next to the only other customers in an empty restaurant, the server who "lies in wait to ask for orders until customer is at the climax of a long anecdote" and the "party of seven all wearing flip-flops in plain sight".
In a similar spirit, one might invoke the idea that responsible individuals cannot acquiesce in the assumption of the responsibility on the part of the government to determine what is worthwhile and choiceworthy for them, for this responsibility rests squarely on each individual's shoulders and cannot legitimately be dislodged from that perch.
This might invoke the incorrect idea that the concrescence implies a fusion of adult teeth formed by mineralized tissues.
The Bush administration has already suggested that it might invoke severe economic penalties if this round failed to produce results.
After Syrian forces sent shells across the Turkish border last week, the Turkish government hinted that it might invoke NATO's Article 5 on mutual protection.
Chabon had written the line, he said, imagining that it might invoke cumin, coriander, or cloves, along with a more familiar scent from the reader's school days.
But, out of bemused curiosity, I tuned in for the apology tour, anticipating that Maher might invoke, as politicians in his situation invariably do, "the real racists".
The Bush administration said today that it might invoke a fundamental principle of Western water law to further reduce water from the Colorado River going to farmers in Southern California.
