In pressing its case, each side invoked civil rights history.

While both sides invoked the rhetoric of freedom and democracy, the war was really a turf battle between left-wing and right-wing thugs.

Both sides invoked the idea of the "blood libel"-the ancient allegation against the Jewish people that they are willing to sacrifice other people's children.

In the debate, both sides and even courts in their decisions have frequently invoked Popper's criterion of falsifiability.

Each side on Monday could invoke an inventory of precedents to support its position.

Each side invokes the weight of rabbinical wisdom.

Under the terms, either side could invoke the agreement.

Indeed, the regularity with which both sides invoked the intervention of the king suggests a widely held view of his impartiality.

In recent budget battles both sides invoked the interests of children to justify their positions.

And over the years, both sides in the V.M.I. case have invoked apocalyptic imagery.