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This is the reason Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was cautious in her reaction to the Saudis’ ambiguous acceptance of their invitation to attend the conference.
Moreover, Romania’s president canceled a visit to Ukraine scheduled for this month, and withdrew an invitation for the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament to visit Bucharest.
To be sure, if Obama had accepted an invitation from the National Rifle Association, no one could view his decision as anything but a betrayal.
These findings are not an invitation to embrace indiscriminate risk taking.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent rebuff of Trump’s invitation to a G7 summit shows how far relations have fallen.
Following Russia’s approach in Syria, he secured a formal invitation from the Libyan government to intervene.
The PiS government signed multiple arms contracts with the US in exchange for symbolic gestures, such as Trump’s invitation to Duda to visit the White House during his own presidential campaign in June.
They are an invitation to unending international conflict, and Trump and his enablers are giving them free rein.
An African Opportunity for Post-Brexit BritainLUSAKA – The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos has long been the political and business world’s equivalent of the Vanity Fair Oscar party: by invitation only, it is a place to be seen.
From China’s perspective, America’s decadence and decline over the last 12 years – from the 2008 financial crisis to Donald Trump’s presidency – have given it an open invitation to accelerate its strategic expansion.
Making up his mind to decline Metrov's invitation, therefore, Levin approached him as soon as the meeting ended.
As Levin had already heard all that, he hastened to tell Metrov that he regretted he was unable to accept his invitation, shook hands, and drove off to the Lvovs'.
After the game Vronsky and Levin joined Gagin at his table, and at Oblonsky's invitation Levin began betting on aces.
He did not give me an answer, but said he must think it over; and this morning instead of an answer I have received an invitation for this evening to go to the Countess Lydia Ivanovna's.''Ah, that's it, that's it!'
He said the same as Mikhaylich and the people who expressed their thought in the legend of the invitation to the Varyags [The Norse chiefs who, at the dawn of Russian history, were invited by the Slav tribes of Russia to come and rule over them and establish order.]:
Each time it was a glass, two if they were polite enough to return the invitation.
He examined every letter of invitation, and took note of those who entered; many came in without a letter, as they were admitted provided he knew them.
A spy must have talked, for he cried that the meeting was illegal, a large number of miners being there without any letter of invitation.
Without trying to reconcile the contradictions between Captain Nemo's professed horror of continents or islands and his invitation to go hunting in a forest, I was content to reply:"First let's look into this Crespo Island."
I often heard them repeat the word "assai," and from their gestures I understood they were inviting me to go ashore, an invitation I felt obliged to decline.
And how I resented the offhand manner in which the captain had extended his deplorable invitation!
"You were downstairs in the ante-room, ready to go out, standing on the last stair; you were wearing a bonnet with small blue flowers; and without any invitation from you, in spite of myself, I went with you.
M. Chelan asked for and obtained a letter of invitation for Julien, who was to accompany him in the capacity of sub-deacon.
She accepted his invitation; they danced.
One morning, a letter was handed to Julien; he recognised the armorial bearings of Madame de Fervaques, and broke the seal with an eagerness which would have seemed quite impossible to him a few days earlier: it was only an invitation to dine.
She had given him an express invitation: Mathilde would not fail to hear of his presence there or of his discourteous absence.
It was of no small importance for him, as this invitation from the deputy director, with whom he had never got on very well, meant that he was trying to improve his relations with him.
He was only speaking at the side of the telephone receiver while he waited for his connection, but in giving this invitation the deputy director was humbling himself.
His look seemed to be saying that K. had been expecting this invitation for Miss Montag for a long time, and that it was confirmation of the suffering he had been made to endure that Sunday morning from Mrs. Grubach's tenants.
Would you not like to take your coat off now?"K. had intended to stay for only a very short time, but the painter's invitation was nonetheless very welcome.
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