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Example sentences for: offing

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(For a quick Tibet refresher, check the Washington Post .) Despite a conciliatory exchange between Presidents Clinton and Jiang in Beijing last Saturday, no easy resolutions are in the offing.
So, when the Kurds came under Iraqi attack again, in 1991, there was good reason to fear that another genocide was in the offing (although President Bush's real motivation was defending the stability of Turkey, where the Kurds were fleeing).
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.
Also in the offing apparently were pancreases, livers, lungs and skin.
If something as grand as a complete shift of paradigm is in the offing, then the old physicians, with their old understandings, training, and paradigm, are relics to be removed as soon as possible.