He invites confrontation or inquiry and then manages to avoid both, smiling with a feigned innocence at the frustration he has wrought.

Invite confrontation in Lhasa and finish in a swill of boycotts and denunciations.

March, and you invite confrontation.

Nor does she invite confrontation.

An aerial spray would be a major advance; tearing up coca bushes by the roots is labor intensive and invites violent confrontation with farmers.

Rodriguez had three homers this season among his 14 hits, for a .378 average, but Colón seemed to invite confrontation last night.

Palestinian leaders spiked the temperature further when they reacted to the subsidy policy with threatening language that seemed to invite violent confrontation.

To invite such confrontation was the result of courage, optimism and (possibly) madness on a massive scale.

The worst approach is to denounce Jesse for a "despotic streak," as some already have, and thereby to invite prolonged confrontation.

The multiple attacks came a day after Mr. Bush seemingly invited confrontation with militant Iraqis, saying, "Bring 'em on."