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Example sentences for: offing

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Federal Reserve officials then hastened to assure the press that a rise in interest rates was not in the offing, and that Greenspan's expressions of concern were merely expressions of concern.
But even if Lott's motive for offing McCain-Feingold remains as powerful as ever, carrying out the hit no longer looks so simple.
The paper quotes Speaker Dennis Hastert opining that there is a tax agreement with the White House in the offing.
(Although the LAT says there's no evidence that there's any orchestrated rate cutting by central banks around the world in the offing.)
But what's interesting is that even if you set the question of overvaluation aside--and it is a much more complicated question than anyone at the Times ever seems to acknowledge--and accept that some form of market correction is in the offing, it's really not clear that a major correction would have such a dramatic impact on the economy as a whole.