The World Economic Forum had a welcome party on Tuesday night for new participants at the congress center, but that again did not extend to journalists.
But neither the Europeans nor the Americans would welcome a third party over-ruling them.
One might have suspected a more welcoming GOP in 2012 with the rise of the Tea Party paving a welcome road for Mr. Paul.
In the meantime, the fixture between the two teams at Highbury next season will act as both a farewell and welcome home party for Arsenal's greatest goalkeeper.
Some will see that as a welcome way of involving the party's grass roots in the process earlier but others will complain they will not be making the final choice.
They were opening an invitation to a party where they might not be quite welcome.
The festival kicks off with an all-day welcome party at Estancia La Alameda, a ranch 130km southeast of Buenos Aires.
However, Mr Maginness's leader, Alastair McDonnell, later issued a statement in which he qualified his party's welcome for the breakthrough, talking about the Girdwood glass being both half full and half empty.
It was a theme picked up at an event in north Belfast by the Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly who said his party wanted a united Ireland that "unionists feel welcome in".
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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani received a warm welcome as he met Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party leaders on Friday to see if his fuel price reversal could entice the party back into government.
The general reader might welcome a little more discussion of what individual practitioners bring to the party.
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"If it had been a prime minister of another party, they would have also been welcome, " she said.
From him, a whole-hearted welcome would merely add to the suspicions of those in the Labour Party who assume that what is good for the Lib Dems cannot be good for them.
To the extent that members of the other party in Congress see that as a positive opportunity for them, he will welcome it.
You can be sure that President Obama would welcome an America in which the Republican Party is preoccupied with remaking itself into a watered-down version of the Democrats.
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Pier Ferdinando Casini, the leader of the third-biggest party in Mr Berlusconi's government of 2001-06, gave his speech a rapturous welcome.
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But Lars Leijonborg, whose Liberal Party took a bashing at the polls over a spying scandal late in the campaign, might welcome a change of scene, and the prestige of the foreign job, to crown his political career.
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Ledley dropped a hint that he may not be at the Bluebirds next season at the club's 'welcome home' party in Cardiff.
"This action is delayed, but is undoubtedly a welcome one, " said Rajiv Pratap Rudy, spokesman of India's principal opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Weak parties also reflect a welcome decline in class conflict in British politics: at the last election the Tories, once recognised as the party of the establishment, made their biggest gains among poorer voters while suffering among the more affluent and educated, who used to be their main supporters.
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