But the ruling's pernicious effect goes well beyond merely inviting more money into politics.
He travelled to Wenzhou Medical University to give lectures and guide scientific research and was selfless in spending his personal time and money inviting scholars from his alma mater to further their studies overseas (Fig. 5).
The result would dash the anticorruption restrictions on candidates' money seeking under the McCain-Feingold law, inviting a blizzard of money and favors directly between donors and politicians.
Britain's new archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Justin Welby, is inviting the humblest of money lenders, credit unions, into the temple.
Depression-era Harlemites pushed back the furniture and made their rent money by inviting the neighborhood in to eat, drink and dance, for a price.
The department has now earmarked £84.8m to meet its original objectives, inviting bids for the money from each of the fire services.
While Mr. Rusbridger said he expected the company's financial situation to improve, The Guardian is exploring new ways to make money, including inviting loyal readers to help financially.
Although trustees act only in the interests of a fund's beneficiaries, they are still vulnerable to a chief executive inviting them to move money away from a trouble-making manager.
It has built a steel fence around the woodland cottage resort at Muskoka that will receive the G8, and deployed special forces on overtime to lurk in the water and surrounding forest.But critics counter that Mr Harper could have saved money by inviting the G20 to Muskoka as well, rather than receiving them separately in Toronto, 200 km (125 miles) to the south.
"Wherever he roamed," Bergreen writes, "Marco Polo found examples of the natural order of things overturned: astrologers conjuring up tempests at will; salt employed as money; householders inviting strangers to lie with their wives, sisters and daughters; deadly serpents yielding life-saving medicine — a dizzying succession of curiosities and paradoxes".
