With barbecue competitors already tattooed head to toe with corporate sponsors, this category is inviting conflicts of interest or, at minimum, the appearance of it.
Plainly, the public would be better served if justices put their money in mutual funds, government securities or certificates of deposit instead of inviting conflicts by investing in publicly traded companies with matters coming before the court.
Hamas has rationalised that inviting a conflict, while potentially bloody, will see Israel struggle to defeat it.
Mr. Cheney had been challenged by the Gore campaign for inviting a conflict of interest if he owned the options while in office.
Internalists of various hues tell us to look within at politicians inviting international conflict for partisan advantage, at economic interests seeking to control markets and resources, at "the military-industrial complex," at bureaucracies out of control, at naive or disloyal people in government or at the social pathology of our culture as a whole.
In this way, it has sought to change the status quo without inviting outright conflict with neighboring countries.
Last week, those inclined to impute an eleven-dimensional chess gambit behind the president's every action were inclined to remark that inviting the conflict was a shrewd move.
Closing with a theopolitical turn, I follow Cristle Collins Judd in citing music-theoretic abbreviation as a soft weapon of sectarian conflict, inviting reflection on how subtle instruments of protest not only defined the confessional age but shaped and sized our own.
He warned that any party that pushes the country in either direction "would be inviting a protracted conflict in the vein of an Iraq, Syria, Libya combined scenario".
"Any side that would want to push the country in either direction would be inviting a protracted conflict in the vein of an Iraq-Libya-Syria combined scenario," he said.
Behind this there is the fear that their native culture could be destroyed for good and, in the case of Muslim migrants, they could be inviting in violent conflicts of the future.
