Sentence examples for failure to invite from inspiring English sources

The failure to invite Britain's two most recent prime ministers, while extending invitations to a hefty number of Tories, has prompted speculation that the royals are showing their disapproval of Blair and Brown.

William Hague, the foreign secretary, is said to share the reservations about the failure to invite Blair and Brown.

Stevens said she was not upset at the Yankees' lack of individual recognition of her father or their failure to invite her to the All-Star Game.

His comments referred to anger at the Palace's failure to invite Tony Blair or Gordon Brown, despite asking former Prime Ministers Sir John Major and Lady Thatcher.

The comment from the president's office comes amid growing criticism of South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, for its apparent failure to invite Tutu to the funeral.

(It was Augusta's failure to invite Virginia Rometty, the first female chief executive of I.B.M., to become a club member, as some of her male predecessors did, that set off this year's controversy).

And this failure to formally invite Chagnon to defend himself happened in spite of the fact that the Task Force chose to broadcast novel reputation-wrecking claims about Chagnon for example, the claim from Yanomamö spokesperson Davi Kopenawa that Chagnon had paid his subjects to kill each other, and had offered to pay per killing (in AAA 2002a, vol. 2, p. 35).

The ball bounced off Holden's chest, and this failure to clear invited a disastrous consequence.

Mr. Christie's failure to be invited is not a mere oversight; virtually every other prominent Republican who might be a plausible nominee in 2016 has been asked to participate.

The first outcome was the repeated failure to be invited as an observer to the WHA.

By all accounts Schindler was wounded by the failure of the Museum of Modern Art to invite him to participate in the International Style exhibition of 1932, which defined and set the tone for modern architecture.