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Invitation in sentence

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What possessed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin “Bibi" Netanyahu to accept an invitation from the Republicans in the US Congress to come and attack President Barack Obama's policy on Iran without letting the White House know?
It is an open invitation for a shakedown of the government by corporate executives seeking handouts.
In his controversial 1961 study of WWII’s origins, the historian A.J.P. Taylor vindicated Hitler’s decision to take over the small successor states that were created at Versailles to check Germany’s power – a strategy by the victors that Taylor called “an open invitation for German expansionism.”
Leading By EngagingWASHINGTON, DC – In his first inaugural address, US President Barack Obama offered an invitation to the world’s most closed countries.
Fomenting violent resistance by demoralizing those who might still listen to reason is an invitation to disaster.
I believe it would be contrary to the spirit of this alliance, and to the principle of its openness if, content with our own invitation, we forgot about those who have not been invited.
The EU vs. DemocracyROME – One of the ways in which the European Union effectively asserts the fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law is through its External Cooperation Programs, whereby, on the invitation of local authorities, it provides support in the form of electoral assistance projects and election observation missions.
But if a real invitation had come, would I have traveled to Libya, spent time with him, and possibly met his father and his cronies?
Urging large surplus, low debt countries to devalue is an invitation for beggar-thy-neighbor policies 1930s style, for a Chinese devaluation would trigger an outburst of devaluation across Asia, or at the very least the expectation of one.
Iran’s Syrian Power Grab and Saudi ArabiaRIYADH – Inviting Iran to the next round of talks on the Syria crisis in Vienna, Austria – an invitation that was reiterated last week – has far-reaching implications.
The resulting cash-based economy is an invitation to corruption.
Against this background, AIPAC’s invitation puts Sanders in an awkward position.
If he turns down the invitation – as some pro-Palestinian activists are urging him to do – he will surely face harsh accusations from America’s large pro-Israel camp.
The political obsession with a better exchange-rate regime amounts to an invitation to private markets to make large amounts of money by betting against those central banks that are pressed by politicians to take a particular view of the exchange rate.
It is an invitation to the US Congress and the American public to acknowledge and address the choices and tradeoffs that are needed to establish a sustainable pattern of economic growth – and to ensure a fair distribution of the burden of getting there.
Welcoming the rise of Chinese power in terms of that country’s becoming a “responsible stakeholder” is an invitation to begin such a dialogue.
Last year, I accepted the UK government’s invitation to undertake a review of public-service pensions.
Musharraf did head that way a few months later, when he forced an invitation out of Singh to watch a cricket match between the two sides in New Delhi in 2005.
At the end of a speech in the Lok Sabah, the lower house of India’s parliament, Singh issued his formal invitation.
Gilani invited Singh to visit Pakistan, an invitation that “will be considered carefully,” according to Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao.
Tortured reasoning about phrases like “use of force” or “exclusively defense-oriented policy” amounts to an open invitation to confusion, both in the military and to countries in the region.
In exchange, Shapiro handed the ultra-orthodox leader of Israel’s Shas party an invitation to the White House.
Mitchell gave a similar invitation to Abbas.
The political upheavals of 1999-2000 resulted in a new “democratic” constitution that became an invitation to civil war.
The European Commission’s Green Paper on immigration looks like an invitation to join the underground economy.
Khamenei would be hard-pressed to ignore a direct invitation from the US to negotiate on Iran’s most vital concerns.
Having sent his foreign minister to Havana to ask, he received a surprising response: Cuba did wish to attend, despite having rejected in 2009 an invitation to return to the OAS.
But without rules, a referendum is little more than an invitation to a collective roar of anger.
In the 1980s, while serving as Norway’s prime minister, I chaired the World Commission on Environment and Development, at the invitation of then-United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.
China’s invitation to South Korea to participate in a new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (alongside other countries in Asia and the Arab world, but excluding Japan and India) furthers Xi’s efforts to create an alternative financial system, with the AIIB mimicking the Asia Development Bank’s work.
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