Yet the Germans themselves often seem reluctant to invoke history, at least before foreigners.

Nationalists everywhere invoke history as self-justification, he writes.

But many speakers invoked God, culture or history in arguing against passage of the measure.

Where she self-consciously invoked family and history, her fellow performers took their roots for granted and shared a good time.

But, then, having invoked American history and myth, Doctorow can't seem to decide what to do with them, either.

He is more popularly known for his murals that invoke the spirit and history of the Mexican people.

He invokes history to describe the nuclear arms race as having "the unfailing characteristics of a march toward war - that and nothing else."

In explaining that conviction, they frequently invoked history.

The characters in "Henry VI" may be forever invoking history, family and the church to justify their actions.

Serbs are not alone in invoking history in their cause.