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Invitation in sentence

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Not unlike North Korea’s and Iran’s defiant nuclear policies, Bashar’s membership in the region’s “axis of evil” is a call for dialogue with America, not an invitation to an invasion, and for a settlement with Israel, not a drive to wage war on it.
So any mention of a new stimulus package becomes an open invitation to those on the right to pounce on a Democratic administration for its apparent fiscal irresponsibility.
Realistically, Sarkozy’s invitation was probably his last chance to play a major political and international role.
Or is it a Russian invitation to the West to reshape the global status quo that has prevailed since the end of Cold War I?Russia’s military is certainly not fit for a global confrontation with the West.
Yerevan – Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s recent invitation to Turkish President Abdullah Gul to visit Yerevan to watch a football match together was historic.
Four years ago, I gave a series of lectures at the invitation of the Ministry of Education and squeezed in a visit with my uncle, a Vietcong who stayed behind after the Communist victory.
Ban rescinded Iran’s invitation to Geneva II under pressure from the US and the Syrian opposition.
But what really attracts disaffected young people is the invitation to be part of something that seems larger than themselves and the societies in which they live.
The Carter Center, which issued politely worded but unmistakably critical reports after the 2012 and 2013 elections, did not receive an invitation this time around, despite its long association with the country and former US President Jimmy Carter’s past praise of its vote-counting technology.
Most of its military or police missions have been based on UN Security Council resolutions, and ESDP missions outside Europe have been at the invitation of local authorities.
The EU will take up the Obama administration’s invitation to share its views with his Detention Policy Task Force on international law principles relevant to the fight against terrorism.
Parliamentary debates are often a charade; parliamentary votes an invitation to obstruction.
This is to say nothing of the fiasco surrounding the withdrawn invitation to Iran, whose buy-in will be essential for any resolution.
For example, in 1996, he declined President Bill Clinton’s invitation to come to Washington, along with Arafat and the leaders of Israel and Jordan, to settle a bout of Palestinian violence.
He then joined the Liberal Party, accepting the invitation of the Liberal Association of Northwest Manchester.
Meanwhile, the Greek Cypriots have been given their entry invitation to the EU, despite the fact that there is still no agreement on the Cyprus problem.
For, unlike diplomatic communications, which are generally an invitation to dialogue, legislation translates into a take-it-or-leave-it prescription, the operational equivalent of an ultimatum.”
Sometimes we dissidents were not invited, but received an apology, and sometimes we were invited, but did not accept the invitation so as not to complicate the lives of our courageous diplomat friends.
Criminal, civil and administrative codes that reflect Georgia's contemporary democratic and market-based reality have replaced the old Leninist norms that were an open invitation to corrupt practices.
The US president should keep an eye on the calendar of the European Council, which brings the EU presidents and prime ministers together four times a year, and solicit an occasional invitation.
But, on this front, Japan and South Korea were reticent, politely agreeing to study China’s invitation to join the AIIB.
Bailout funds and Eurobonds were an invitation to moral hazard.
I refused to accept the invitation from the president of the Human Rights Council at the time, Ambassador Martin Uhomoibhi of Nigeria, to lead the investigation following the Human Rights Council’s January 12, 2009 resolution.
Gilani extended another invitation to Singh to visit Pakistan.
So there is no question that the invitation to the New York Philharmonic was meant to burnish the prestige of a regime, ruled by The Dear Leader, Kim Jong-Il, whose standing is so low – even in neighboring China – that it needs all the burnishing it can get.
An invitation has now gone out to the British rock star to perform in North Korea, which really would be something new.
Somewhat more promising is the possible invitation to India to participate in developing, alongside France, Germany, and Britain, the new joint Euro-fighter.
At best, it creates what one constitutional expert called “an invitation to struggle.”
But recently an invitation came from the Faisal Center for Islamic Research and Studies, which actually wanted me to talk about democracy, or “good governance,” as the participants called it.
In December 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad performed the Hajj at the personal invitation of King Abdullah, marking the first time a head of state of the Islamic Republic was able to do so.
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