Bahrain's crown prince was invited but decided not to attend because of unrest in his country.

VOA: special.2011.04.30

We are invited to be not merely passive onlookers of this conversation, but active participants in that dialogue that takes place in this book over the course of a single evening.

我们不仅受邀,作为这场会谈的被动旁观者，更受邀参与进行中的对谈,时间就在那一晚,内容是本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So I was a counselor for a year, and then they invited me to become a dean, an assistant dean, in order to not only work with individual students and their issues, but to also think about campus culture and ways we might help prepare the culture for the change that was taking place.

这样我做了一年的顾问，之后他们请我做了院长，副院长，这样就不仅仅是处理,一个个学生和他们的事情，还要思考校园的文化,思考如何帮助校园文化准备好,应对将要发生的改变。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Senior State Department officials later said North Korea had been invited by Thailand to send an envoy to Phuket but had not responded.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

Given that he was officially invited by the president of Eritrea and given that Eritrea is not a state party, one could argue that there is no risk at all on President al-Bashir."

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Given that Qatar is not a state party and that Qatar has invited the Sudanese president, and he would very likely be using his personal jet, I see no risk at all in him traveling there."

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

"It was during Zia's time that he not only overthrew the government and executed a popular elected populist President Bhutto, but he also invited the Wahabis in from the Gulf in order to counter the Shia revivalism that he feared coming in from Iran."

VOA: standard.2010.07.08