Sentence examples for invitation to stand from inspiring English sources

The invitation to stand can be liberating.

Much later, he turned down an invitation to stand for rector of Edinburgh University because, he said, he had done enough damage already to the city's academic reputation.

Lord Coe is set to become the next chairman of the British Olympic Association after confirming he would accept an invitation to stand for the position.

The Dutch coach's emollient nature will be his principal asset in the initial stages of realignment and renewal, and it was no surprise he spoke of his "wonderful relationship" with Chelsea's fans, who looked accusingly up at Abramovich when thousands followed an invitation to "stand up for the Special One".

It is an invitation to stand up and speak out, often through ritual and performance and ceremony, to publicly express one's deepest feelings for another before the world.

On 28 January 2014, the DA announced that Mamphela Ramphele had accepted an invitation to stand as its presidential candidate in the 2014 general election, and the DA and Agang South Africa were set to merge.

"We're not sending out invitations to stand up and be counted," said Claude Bartolone, Socialist president of the lower house of France's parliament, the Assemblée Nationale.

He also turned down invitations to stand for parliament, and to join the fledgling Royal Australian Air Force.

He had no interest in public honours and refused invitations to stand for Parliament.

A champion of the medicinal use of cannabis - and due in court again soon as such - she has accepted an invitation from the Legalise Cannabis Alliance to stand against the Commons leader in the Welsh constituency of Neath.

California also argues that allowing the appellate court decision to stand would be an invitation to death penalty inmates to file "Clair motions" to seek new counsel as a delaying strategy.