Many observers found it odd that the President would try to reassure the public by invoking Somalia, which, for most Americans, conjures decades-old scenes of Black Hawk Down, the desecrated bodies of Rangers, and intractable warlords.
Making these statements public and invoking them with regularity makes them stick.
- The radical right and the insurance industry have turned on the public option, invoking comparisons to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. - Pundits on the right like Greg Mankiw paint visions of an unfair competition between a competitive private sector insurance industry and a GSE-like public option entity that could unfairly dip into the taxpayer and drive the private firms out of business.
The service, which is open to the public, will invoke a pantheon of deities with names like the Morrigan (the corpse-picking queen of the battlefield) and the Dagda (her erstwhile mate, the all-father).
Before the public outcry invoked by Hill's position brought women in droves to the Senate chamber, Republicans had been assured of a majority in favor of confirming Thomas, which is why they resisted a delay much like their circumstances with Kavanaugh, before Blasey Ford's testimony brought women out even more than they already had been, their bodily autonomy threatened by his assumed politics.
Moreover, departments in California routinely withhold all footage from the public, by categorically invoking the investigatory records exemption to the state's public records law.
"In the context of a discriminatory provision relating to legal assistance, invoking public confidence amounts to little more than reliance on public prejudice," they said.
The prosecution aptly described the two faces of the governor: the public one, ever invoking reverence for "the little people".
He has disappeared from public view after invoking his right against self-incrimination when called as a witness in an Abu Ghraib-related trial that year.
On Sunday, FBI Director James Comey intensified the war of words for public support by invoking the slaughter of Farook's 14 victims and called on Americans to reconcile "how to both embrace the technology we love and get the safety we need".
