He said the CIA did not seek to conduct any more detentions and interrogations, but he deflected an invitation to rule out returning to torture under a post-Obama presidency.
In a ruling last December, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, refused the plaintiffs' invitation to rule that the Supreme Court's 1978 decision in the Bakke case, permitting affirmative action in higher education, was no longer good law.
This was not consensual hegemony, or empire by invitation, or rule through surrogates, but the direct hand of President Bush's proconsul placed on every significant lever of Iraqi power.
The FCC took the court ruling as an invitation to rewrite its net-neutrality rules, so they would conform with existing communications law.
As a general rule, an invitation is extended to the two teams with the highest draft picks that have their coaching staffs returning.
Texas soon took Gorsuch up on the invitation; its state Supreme Court ruled unanimously that same-sex married couples need not be given spousal benefits that heterosexual married couples are given.
The NHS Breast Screening Programme has established policy rules on the invitation to a mammography and the NHS Cervical Screening Programme has established policy rules for the invitation to a Pap smear test.
Environmental groups said the process was not so innocuous, complaining that it was an open invitation to industries to weaken rules safeguard the public health and environment.
A self-described "earmarks guy" who specializes in spending items, Mr. Dyer said the new rules were an invitation to scandal hunters.
Such market values are what investors need to know, but the rules provide an invitation for companies to make very generous estimates, particularly if the company is trying to cover up what it hopes will be a temporary problem.
