Earnestly invited

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

King George III earnestly invited him to stay in England, but Haydn for reasons that have never been made clear preferred to return to his native Austria to serve the new head of the Esterházy family, Prince Miklós II.

The Bolsa Chica Land Trust is sponsoring a town hall meeting at 7 p.m. March 10 at the Huntington Beach Central Library in rooms C and D. The public is invited, and I earnestly hope that the two columnists will attend and learn the true facts about the trust's plan.

But while the waiters roasted the project, a group of high school art students (invited to the site by Mr. Baker's company) earnestly questioned Mr. Maltz about his artistic intentions.

When the live streaming app Periscope invited Hadfield to be among its first users, he earnestly dove into hours of chats about music and space with Internet strangers.

When invited to the summit between Rabin and Arafat in Washington in 1993, however - where I happen to know that he was earnestly entreated to attend by the Clinton White House - he told me that it was quite simply beneath his dignity to take part in such a media farce.

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To ask average 14- or even 20-year-olds about the nature of their online lives is to invite such sardonic comebacks, as if to confirm the emergence of an allnew generation gap, with most 40-pluses earnestly but hopelessly stuck on the far side.

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