Such progressions are as familiar and comfortable as a well-worn cliche; songwriters can use them to invoke tradition or simply because they're lazy.

Mr. Brendel invoked "tradition."

The songs invoke tradition or confront current troubles with hearty, unflinching voices.

In the decades after his death, some followers of Jesus in Jerusalem invoked religious tradition to suggest that, just as animal sacrifices were offered in the Temple, so Jesus had died as a sacrificial offering.

When in doubt invoke tradition and improvise.

All three invoke tradition while plugging in.

Intended to invoke tradition, political correctness and freshness, with more than a whiff of epicurean superiority.

The quickest way to insure Sithas's cooperation was to invoke tradition.

Those who, when dealing with this subject, invoke tradition, custom, religion or any other such nonsense do no more than shroud in hypocrisy their failure to confront barbarism.