But no invitations were delivered to the broadcasters or staff.

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Was America's football holiday always such an obligation, fraught with social panic, the fear of no invitations, of sitting alone in the darkness with the remote, silently eating bacon ranch Pringles from a can?

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There is likely to be no shortage of invitations for Pope Francis to travel to the four corners of the globe in the pursuit of such goals.

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There was no shortage of welcoming invitations.

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For invitations which have not been extended, no further action is needed.

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He keeps accepting invitations to appear on Newsnight, only to find that no government minister has turned up in support.

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The OWGR is seldom criticized for determining the 100 top-ranked players who are usually invited to play in the PGA Championship, or the 50 who automatically receive Masters invitations, But when the algorithm spits out the name of a No. 1 player who has not won a major recently, or at all, that's another story.

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