1.   Only with that official invitation did Manville open the file and pull out its contents.

2.   But official invitations are not always easy to get.

3.   Each visitor to Russia is required to have an official invitation to visit from a sponsor within the country.

4.   Garrett said he expects the Sun Bowl to extend an official invitation to USC perhaps as early as today.

5.   In Miami, Spencer Eig, a lawyer representing Elian, said that the boy and his family had not received an official invitation.

6.   Requests by the opposition for an independent electoral commission and for an official invitation for foreign election observers to monitor the vote have also fallen on deaf ears.

7.   Roberts passed the information about Meza to Russell, who sent the official invitation in March via an e-mail message.

8.   She is a regular on the international art circuit, and in January she received an official invitation to show in the Yugoslav Pavilion.

9.   They put him in touch with a Yugoslav organization called the Institute for Geopolitical Studies, which persuaded the Yugoslav government to extend him an official invitation.

10.   Tuesday, Washington is to receive its official invitation to either the Aloha or Oahu Bowl on Christmas Day.