In many ways, such views would not seem to invite controversy.

First, to pick 10 days is to invite speculation and controversy.

But in the first place, such a suggestion is apt to invite needless controversy.

"I'm not trying to invite controversy," she added, "but to create a landscape with sculpture set in an urban atmosphere."

But no one needed to invite controversy, because it has been brewing all summer.

Discussions about the authenticity of these visions have often invited controversy.

Though we all support proper punctuation in theory, Rubin has not shied away from action, even that which invites controversy.

Engaging in a discussion about the Arab-Israeli struggle would invite controversy, he said, both within his mosque and outside it.

"I don't like to invite public controversy at all, but as a social worker, I could not, in good conscience, turn them away."

The game seems happy to invite controversy, which was even offered up as a way to bring attention to special interest groups.