1.   In order to invoke the rule against prior restraint, the defendant must state on affidavit his intention to justify the allegation.

2.   But on Sunday they had won, the lucky ones when another crazy sporting rule was invoked.

3.   And Edgar Martinez made a base-running mistake in the ninth, getting tagged out after an infield fly rule had been invoked by the umpires.

4.   But he did not invoke the rule, a fact the UAW prefers not to discuss.

5.   Finally, Shabani invokes the rule of lenity, arguing that the statute is unclear because it neither requires an overt act nor specifies that one is not necessary.

6.   Invoking the rule would have meant almost certain death for the tobacco bill.

7.   It was the first time the rule was invoked.

8.   Tension heightened when the league invoked questionable rules that disqualified some St. Sabina players.

9.   The commission recently invoked the rule to require Viacom, which recently purchased CBS, to divest itself of UPN, a newer, financially weak network.