Sentence examples for virtually invited from inspiring English sources

Mr. Botha has virtually invited sanctions to show his country's defiance.

The Institute did not disclose that the court said the city's signs "virtually invited wrong-way entry," the consumer group said.

Embracing rather than resisting the sweeping tide of anti-Communism in the 1940s and '50s, the studios invented the blacklist, and virtually invited the House Committee on Un-American Activities — another form of mob intimidation — to investigate their own writers.

For instance, when asked last week whether he would release the letters he had written to federal agencies as a senator, he virtually invited reporters to check his Senate files.

Following brutal criticism of the chaotic race for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, which virtually invited corruption with its ill-defined rules, sponsors began to exert pressure of their own and the ISL affair lingered in the background.

Yet the home side were so ragged in midfield and nervous in defence they virtually invited their opponents to push for more, and once Vidic had been dismissed for hauling down Gerrard they needed no further asking.

As passed by the Senate, McCain-Feingold virtually invites circumvention.

The president of the European Commission virtually invites the Belgian government to sue Renault.

That virtually invites Iraq, which has not yet agreed to admit new U.N. inspectors, to continue concealing its illegal programs.

The "angry tigress" of Handel's "Sta nell'Ircana" and the turbulent trills of Vivaldi's "Agitata da due venti" virtually invite melodrama.

(Anderson 20110505 ★ Dances Patrelle (Thursday) With their bouncy melodies and endearingly eccentric characters, the Victorian operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan virtually invite choreographic treatment.