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Lincoln explicitly invoked the figures of women in his discourse on human dignity.
Originally, the festival invoked the help of the gods against a plague in medieval Kyoto; highly commercialized imitations of it are now celebrated all over the country.
In those seven lines, freighted with the layered voice of European culture, Dante's vision of paradise is invoked both explicitly, in the "concentric radiance" of the last canto of his Paradiso , and implicitly, in his braided terza rima (three-line stanzas, rhyming--loosely here--aba, bcb, etc.).
Several articles on the subject have ritually invoked "the end of the Cold War" as an explanation.
An analysis said, "The United States yesterday invoked the old Israeli method in the war on terrorism, which tries to deter terrorists and make them pay a price for their actions.