Sentence examples for invited the big from inspiring English sources

After yet another impasse between the developer and the owner of the World Trade Center site, Mayor Michael Bloomberg invited the big players to Gracie Mansion last week.

Word has gone round that Maestro Abreu, who founded El Sistema in 1975, has invited the Big Noise orchestra to Caracas to see first hand the work they do.

President Kennedy praised the organizers for a job well done and invited the "big ten" for a meeting in the Oval Office.

Certainly, as François Pignon in Francis Veber's "Dinner Game," he is the perennial loser, a boring accountant who is the butt of a sadistic game in which a group of Paris sophisticates compete to invite the biggest idiot to dinner.

Some would argue that if you invite the biggest party - the DUP - you should also invite the others - Sinn Fein, SDLP, Alliance and Ulster Unionists as well.

You know when you try to be polite and invite the biggest of your spaz friends to something you're going to and you email them location and other pertinent details in advance, only to see at the peak of the good times, when it's very loud and you're making headway with someone pursuable, they're trying to call?

Indeed, the Bertelsmann Music Group has a pending deal to create such a subscription service with Napster and has invited the other big music companies to take part.

And last week, the Australian Government invited the country's big polluters to bid for a slice of those rewards.

It is reasonable for guests to suppose that, if they are close enough to the couple to be invited to a shower, they are close enough to be invited to the big event as well.

Iran is among 90-odd delegations that have been invited to the big conference in The Hague to build up international support.Those privy to the review say its centrepiece will be a commitment to increase the size of the Afghan security forces.

Two years ago when he took over, he invited the city's biggest developers to a meeting and gave them a blunt warning.