On Tuesday afternoon a friend invited me to a black-tie event that was taking place on Thursday.
She was an easy mark when a friend invited her to an April seminar held by a company called BigSmart.com that promised fast money on the Internet.
Mr Koike's interest in Japan's Internet prospects was fuelled in February 1999, when a friend invited him to a new-business conference in Tokyo organised by Japan's trade and industry ministry.
When my friend Sam invited his new girlfriend Robyn to join him for a sailing trip, he was relatively new to the sport.
"Normally during this time of year, I'm watching the NBA playoffs, but a friend of mine invited me to the hockey game, and I decided to take him up on his offer, and I gotta tell you, it did not disappoint, " he said.
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And I invited my friend Dr. Michael Rich--he's an astronomer at UCLA--to the studio to see if they hold any merit.
But two years ago, my friend Cristina Di Benigno invited me to lunch in her village near Corvara, a tiny, little-known ruin of a town in Abruzzo, about an hour by car from the port city of Pescara.
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After being so completely moved and inspired by her own experience, Marturano invited her friend Saki Santorelli to co-develop a mindful leadership curricula and together began teaching retreats and courses at General Mills that combined the basics of mindfulness with the training of leadership excellence.
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At the last minute, I recklessly invited a chef friend and his family to dinner.
She called a friend there, who graciously invited her and her fellow scouts into the kitchen for a meal of fruit, chips and chicken pockets (chunks of meat wrapped in hot pastry).
Last year, Jafar Panahi, the fifty-one-year-old Iranian film director currently under house arrest in Tehran, invited a documentary-filmmaker friend, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, to come over.
Bonifaz invited Donziger, a family friend, to join the expedition.
In 1989, Garland was invited to direct the thanksgiving service for his friend Lord Olivier at Westminster Cathedral.
Scott's school friend Jeff (Jeremy Shamos, superb as always) has been invited and is our guide, playing a stranger navigating long-practiced family rituals.
In danger of falling on to the assembled mass, and after some heated communication between the CBI chief and the man in the roof - now joined by a friend - the PM was bundled off into a side room to deliver his speech cheek by jowl with the invited guests, and the constant interruptions of mobile phones, TV cameras, photographers, and noises off.
Once again, Paul Tierney , my good friend, legendary private equity and emerging markets investor, and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Business School, has invited me to be a guest lecturer at his emerging markets finance course.
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