I am confident that, by now, you understand many of the consequences that spring from an invitation having been extended to former Mayor Giuliani,

I'd rather not subpoena Ms. Stewart, ... I've extended an invitation to talk with our investigators. I said we'd do that in the place of her choosing in a nonpublic way without advance notice to the press so we wouldn't have paparazzi there. But she's declined to do that.

from The Ninja and The Diplomat (coming in September 2015)--As an unintended but ineluctable consequence of the one child policy, he and his wife, like most of his generation and those succeeding, consisted of only children; hence his family included no aunts or uncles, no cousins, and no nieces or nephews. The Chinese family had lost an immeasurable dimension of richness.

It's ironic . . . where we have no intention of setting up, (the chief) has extended an invitation to meet on Monday to find out more about us because he's curious.

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)