In May, Bill McKibben wrote an article in Rolling Stone, "A Call to Arms: An Invitation to Demand Action on Climate Change," which laid some of the groundwork for this weekend's events.
It was disappointing therefore to be accused of being 'institutionally sexist', when we would like nothing more than for men to take up the invitation to take action publicly against violence and abuse.
Some critics of the policy, which will allow hundreds of thousands of young people to work and obtain driver's licenses and other documents, say it is an open invitation to deceitful actions by people who promote themselves as immigration consultants but often charge exorbitant fees and skirt the law.
They say it is an invitation to vast class action lawsuits on issues that could be resolved out of court.
Preceding the summit, it was expected that Ukraine was on a fast track to membership: it was believed that Ukraine would have received an invitation to a Membership Action Plan during the summit, followed by an invitation to join in 2008 and membership in 2010.
The call to witness will not be a protest or criticism, said Arzuaga-Morales, but an invitation to dialogue and to action that will visibly and responsibly address the issue.
The process reminded many of us of the way Native American elders were said to go about reaching decisions: 'Talk and talk until the talk begins.' 1 And importantly, we recognised both explicit and implicit invitations to take action, as we probed the various ways in which people could build on and use such knowledge.
This biconditional is an open invitation to provide counterexamples: actions that are not wrong even though their maxims aren't universalizable, and actions that are wrong, though their maxims are universalizable.
"That portion of the judge's findings was an invitation to a class-action lawsuit," said Robert Litan, a former senior official in the Justice Department's antitrust division who is now at the Brookings Institution.
