Sentence examples similar to invite a refusal from inspiring English sources
Nobody invited a Buddhist.
That invites a consideration.
While insisting on the requirement that the "transcendental project" be "in accord with the real possibilities open at the attained level of the material and intellectual culture," Marcuse entrusted its realization to an impersonal and contemplative Reason, which cannot but invite the "great refusal" of contemporary society.
But even as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell met with the German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer -- in a session delayed after several American rebuffs to German entreaties for a meeting -- the administration dealt the Germans another snub: a refusal to invite Mr. Fischer to the White House.
A closer look at Turkey's refusal to reckon with the truth about the genocide invites an important question: Could the acknowledgment of the genocide be in Turkey's interest in the long run?
272 patients were invited and 254 took part, with a refusal rate of 6.62%.
The participation rate for cases and control was 96% (732 invited, 30 refusals) and 98% (1697 invited, 34 refusals), respectively.
Otherwise this would invite questioning of its refusal to deal with Hamas, undercut its effort to undermine the recently agreed Palestinian national unity government supported by Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as well as Hamas, and derail its determination to choke Hamas by blockading Gaza.
A refusal could be devastating.
