Every Sunday after services, the minister invites the congregation to "come downstairs and share fellowship and refreshment."

Meanwhile, the minister of tourism, trade and industry, Moses Ali, has invited Ugandans to smoke as a form of patriotism.

With a faint thump, the coffin came to rest, and then the minister invited Margo's mother to throw in a clod of dirt.

The white ministers invited black ministers to join their meeting at the palatial First Baptist Church on the Hill.

The VSO has been operating in Rwanda since 1997 when the minister of education invited it to help to rebuild the system.

The prime minister cordially invited him to . . . He didn't bother reading what function was involved, merely checked the date.

Commentator Eric Kierans observed that "The general impression you get, is that our prime minister invited his boss home for dinner."

Seeing Genji in the palace one day, the minister had invited him to the festivities.

In one case, church officials said, the minister invited a boy into a shower with him; in another, nude photographs were taken.

With a gun to the head of monetary union, European ministers, in effect, invited bond markets to pull the trigger.