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Example sentences for: offing

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Ralph Nader, for example, notes that if Office Max now supports the merger, which it does, that makes you wonder how much real competition is in the offing.
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.
The LAT says that prospects for enacting comprehensive campaign reform this year are pretty much dashed because on Monday the House leadership of Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey adopted rules requiring any such measure to pass, not by the simple majority that seemed in the offing, but by a two-thirds "super-majority."
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.
The paper quotes Speaker Dennis Hastert opining that there is a tax agreement with the White House in the offing.