Crucially, elements within the police and armed forces changed sides.The rose revives...The ripples from that upheaval were soon felt as far away as Côte d'Ivoire, where in 2000 street protesters, openly invoking the example of Yugoslavia, drove General Robert Guei from the presidency that he had seized a year earlier.
In some cases, like the condemnation of the Republican ticket issued last weekend by Representative John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat who is a civil rights leader, the topic has come up openly: Mr. Lewis invoked George Wallace, the noted segregationist, in rebuking Mr. McCain as tolerating political rallies marked by crowds yelling insults and threats at Mr. Obama.
Paddick, who at one time was the highest ranking openly gay police officer in the U.K., invoked his own experience of previously being married to a woman at a time when he thought he might be gay to illustrate the potential risks to personal privacy from the cache of web access data required to be logged under the proposed legislation.
The rule of law is indeed a fundamental principle of contemporary order, but it should not be invoked so arbitrarily when it is being infringed upon so openly in Japan with the tacit backing of the US and other countries.
By shedding partisan identity and openly diminishing the value of blind loyalty to any one ideological group, Stanton invoked the true spirit of choice by the people.
Justice Alito invoked Plato.
He invoked Krane repeatedly.
Keith Hernandez invoked Willie McCovey.
They pleaded and invoked Scripture.
Rabelais was invoked, and Walt Whitman.
