"Leap into the arms of liberty," Friendly urges Flora at one point, invoking a word that carries a special charge throughout.
He cast the fight against Israel in religious as well as political terms, at one point invoking Al Aksa mosque in Jerusalem, one of the most important holy sites in Islam.
He forcefully made his point, invoking Nazis and Hitler to do so (in front of an audience of Jews, who are especially sensitive to such specious comparisons).
The lyrics, which at one point invoke Ms. Benjamin, felt duly sincere.
A useful way of making this point invokes Segal's (1996) idea of diachronic modularity (see also Scholl & Leslie, 1999).
Unless hotel operators are specific about selling points, invoking mere luxury will fail to impress, he said.
The anthropologist Douglas Sharon wrote in his book Wizard of the Four Winds, "Four-ribbed cacti, like four-leafed clovers, are considered to be very rare and very lucky, they are believed to have special curative properties because they correspond to the 'four winds' and the 'four roads,' supernatural powers associated with the cardinal points invoked during curing rituals".
But in general, the point of invoking God in moral debates is not to pre-emptively solve the dilemmas that moral philosophers grapple with.
On that score, the killing of Osama bin Laden changed nothing, said Mr. Mukasey, who reinforced the point by invoking a favorite source for conservatives, Winston Churchill.
And they do put themselves in some heady company, at one point even invoking Shakespeare -- that "unrepentant serial coiner" -- to bless their mission of invention.
The original letter made a point of invoking free speech and did not ban any kind of costume; it simply encouraged students to give due consideration to others, in the hopes of fostering a nondiscriminatory, tolerant community — "one Yale".
