So far, however, Washington has yet to declare its hand, virtually inviting a continuation of the noisy debate.

That virtually invites Iraq, which has not yet agreed to admit new U.N. inspectors, to continue concealing its illegal programs.

Indeed the bill virtually invites states to kick parents off welfare rather than finding them work.

Now President Bush has done so, virtually inviting a coup in some of his public remarks.

He did not merely suspect betrayal on all sides--he virtually invited it.

As I had detected, the approach was smooth, virtually inviting.

And the whole image virtually invites viewers to share the Columbus experience.

But the action led only to broken promises from the factory and to legal action so minimal that it virtually invited more counterfeiting.

But it virtually invites the inclusion of deleted data unless programmers take explicit steps to prevent it.

Must we virtually invite people to be careless with the environment because certain polluters are beyond the reach of the law on damages?