| It was at one of those catatonic evenings when a dramatic turnaround was in the offing. |
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| The poor man is left wondering whether he was led up the garden path only to find out there is no free lunch in the offing. |
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| Strange and romantic experiences are in the offing, and you may even gain through a love affair, so let your imagination run wild. |
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| Imagine if you will you were a government which was aware of a global pandemic flu in the offing. |
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| It took wise and far-seeing leaders to discern that major events were in the offing, requiring novel thinking. |
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| Already 1200 applications have been received from across the country and more are in the offing. |
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| Many payments to politicians were made at times when local and general elections were in the offing. |
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| If they stretch their necks backward over their wings during the daytime this is said to be a warning of foul weather in the offing. |
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| It appeared that a friendly game of gin rummy was not in the offing, and I crept out of the room. |
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| Now there appears to be a savage credit crunch in the offing, and nobody seems to even notice. |
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| Now, with Berry's inquiry in the offing, it is likely to resonate with a much wider audience. |
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| With that kind of trend in place, do you see any kind of reversal in the offing? |
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| We could not approach industry for substantive new funding with the minister's initiative in the offing. |
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| Increasingly, legal mandates are in the offing to force you to design and deploy technology that restricts what you and your users may do. |
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| In the meantime, they assassinated their vice president and just missed offing the president. |
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| In recent issues, I have clung to my bearish outlook but gingerly hinted that a tilt to the bullish side of the ledger was in the offing. |
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| I wish I didn't know that I have another second class train journey in the offing. |
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| Years ago, my older brother tried to convince me that whenever he and his friends played penny-ante poker, a police raid was in the offing. |
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| With such a matrimonial event in the offing, it got me thinking today about the numerous weddings I've been to over the last few years. |
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| Investors took that as a hint that a downgrade to junk status may be in the offing. |
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| At first, we see one loudly dressed mechanic in stately attitude, with his hand on a cannon, ashore, and a ship riding at anchor in the offing. |
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| It seems that Jason is back from the dead and getting back in the saddle offing good looking, nubile co-eds and stupid adults. |
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| I realized her precarious emotional state and immediately offered to go take care of the grisly task of offing her turkey. |
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| Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the best way to prove your innocence of murder is by offing a bunch of law enforcement officers. |
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| If any such deal is in the offing, expect it round about the time shareholders need an extra boost. |
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| The economic downturn has cast a pall over CEO compensation, but that doesn't mean that CEO pay cuts or rollbacks are in the offing. |
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| Instead we went to a frat party, and honestly, I'm pretty sure that offing ourselves would have almost been better. |
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| It would also have music and game shows as also news bulletins in Telugu and Urdu while plans are in the offing to have news in English too. |
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| There is a very real danger that, with an election in the offing, he may be swayed by those who shout the loudest. |
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| New copyright legislation is in the offing but it's a painfully slow process. |
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| A Communist push from the highlands to the sea to cut South Vietnam in half and isolate Saigon appeared in the offing. |
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| Funding isn't the only political donnybrook in the offing when the renewal of welfare reform is debated next year. |
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| It is learnt that more changes in the civil administration are also in the offing as part of the ongoing efforts to defuse the tense situation. |
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| With the serial makers trying all the tricks in their hats to impress the audience, already inundated with tear-jerkers, more encounters like this could be in the offing. |
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| Several splinter armed groups have emerged in different parts of the country and more are in the offing. |
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| Since TSAT has the million shares of Hughes stock, could a deal be in the offing? |
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| In other words, a pair of 30-plus-story residential towers may be in the offing. |
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| I wonder what sort of co-operation there may be in the offing on this issue. |
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| A widespread humanitarian crisis, with probable devastating consequences, could therefore be in the offing. |
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| If leases for facilities or equipment are about to expire, for example, price hikes may be in the offing. |
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| His drinks were beginning to let him down, and while it had not reached him yet, he felt a miserable soberness in the offing. |
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| If the member is talking about an assessment process similar to an environmental impact assessment, that is not something I see in the offing. |
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| What the leader of that party said to his caucus was that the plan was in the offing long before the stimulus issue came out. |
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| It is surprising that there is no breakthrough in intermodal transport in the offing. |
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| Then, when an election is in the offing, suddenly it is an important thing, we debate it and it dies again. |
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| With the oil shortage in the offing or during transport strikes, it can be a great asset to move around in a congested city. |
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| We can expect the same thing of the accessions of Romania and Bulgaria, which are in the offing. |
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| In other words, the conflict is far more complex, there is no solution in the offing and yet, as we all agree, there is an urgent need for one. |
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| Today, with an election in the offing, people are wondering if they will trust them again. |
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| In telecommunications, a recovery is in the offing driven by demand for new infrastructure in mobile telephony. |
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| Rumours continued to circulate throughout 2008 that a new Noir Désir album was in the offing. |
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| I hope that with an election in the offing, you will be more attentive to the voices of the ethnic minority. |
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| What is it doing writing this, when it could be on the next plane to LA, natty in chef's whites and hat, lucrative new career in the offing? |
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| There is an untold number of other Zimmermans out there, waiting to protect the white race by offing a Young Black Male. |
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| Many usually sober commentators in Moscow now argue that a change of regime, not just of government, is in the offing. |
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| Dozens of contracts for oil, hydropower, farming and mining projects worth billions of dollars are in the offing. |
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| But this time the Tigers must have been aware, in detail, of what was in the offing. |
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| With an expenditure review in progress and a general election in the offing, it is difficult to find a window to make the request. |
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| A lateral move in the offing provides opportunity to trailblaze new frontiers under existing career auspice. |
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| It is not made clear just why Sebastian snaps to the degree he does, but he suddenly becomes a murderous, kill-crazed loony, offing his co-workers one by one. |
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| We came past the island two days later and gave it an offing of over a mile compared to our usual half mile, with nothing to be seen, felt or smelt. |
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| Yet another genetically-modified crop is in the offing, and this time for controlling aflatoxin levels in groundnut, the country's largest produced oilseed. |
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| Usually when a great philosopher, such as Kant, overreaches himself, or seems to do so, we can suspect that there is something true in the offing. |
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| His decision to accept the premiership was viewed by his detractors as acknowledgement that a national cabinet post was not in the offing for him. |
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| His problem now is that, with an election in the offing, his political opponents will look for every opportunity to wrong-foot him and that is sad for the country. |
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| In that groaner, Burt is convinced he is going to die soon and sets about offing himself. |
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| Measurement Canada's involvement in the retail petroleum sector is multifaceted, and changes are in the offing with a view to making its intervention more effective and filling certain gaps. |
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| Although the Act applies only to workplaces in the federally-regulated private sector, similar legislation is clearly in the offing for businesses under provincial jurisdiction in Ontario. |
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| Nevertheless, one more change that is significant is still in the offing and that is the revamping of the national board and the governance model of the FSNA for the future. |
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| Without significant improvements to the business climate, which does not appear to be in the offing, new investors are likely to remain wary of entering the market. |
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| Rest assured: there are no elections in the offing for the moment! |
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| I believe that you have a short film project in the offing? |
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| It is heartening to find that the continued engagement of the Security Council and the efforts of its Working Group have produced some tangible results and that many more, positive outcomes are in the offing. |
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| Another very important set of rules the Statistics law' is in the offing. |
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| However, in 1994, after the failure to reform federalism and with the Quebec referendum in the offing, the Liberal government put an end to that friendly agreement because it wanted to increase Canada's visibility in Quebec. |
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| Presidential elections are also in the offing there. |
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| It is not possible to make everything dependent on everything else, nor is it possible to force through an agricultural reform with enlargement in the offing. |
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| If this fact came to the attention of the Russian security services, they would be forced to infer that a terrorist attack, with potentially devastating environmental consequences, was in the offing. |
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| This was despite iwi understanding a settlement was in the offing after 18 months of negotiations. |
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| Some of us don't see much change in the offing unless Gerard Houllier has soccer's equivalent of a Paulian conversion. |
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| If the stocks on your radar are moving higher, but without greater investor interest, then it can often mean a pullback is in the near offing. |
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| Today opportunities are in the offing as the great powers are witnessing a slowdown in growth and as technology companies continue to be in need of capital. |
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| Technological development and productivity improvement in the offing. |
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| Improved aircraft designs were in the offing with the Bristol Beaufighter, then under development. |
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| At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside. |
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| Still, a fresh batch of Republican defections could be in the offing. |
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| We therefore need to restrict ourselves to prescribing pre-conditions for future developments and proposing measures which can enter into force at the time when the developments are in the offing. |
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| Neither of these changes is in the immediate offing. |
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| In this historic context, with one of the most important summits, preparing for an historic Intergovernmental Conference, in the offing, I wish to address the Commission. |
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| Back in Peekskill, plenty of jazz is in the offing. |
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| Restricted access to the courts combined with vacillating leadership on the federal government's part could mean that some devolution of language issues to the provinces is in the offing. |
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| With demand on the rise, scarcity would seem be in the offing. |
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| The revolting efforts by the Rabbani group to canonise their icon, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and their fervid political ululations under his portraits are all in preparation for conspiracies in the offing. |
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| These results suggest this might soon be in the offing. |
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| Changes to Malaysia's centralized federalism might be in the offing. |
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| Pierre-Édouard Leclère, superintendent of the newly created Montreal police force, received scraps of information every day to the effect that a great and terrible revolt was in the offing. |
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| The Australian order for 50 engines to power 22 Tigers is the engine's first major export win, with a second in the offing after the Spanish government voiced its strong interest in the helicopter. |
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| Outlook: As no extraordinary burdens are in the offing in 2002 and as the slightly improved operating result has only been drastically reduced by financial expenses and taxes, earnings should rise again. |
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| Lastly, several countries where significant investments have taken place in recent years will be better placed to compete for the declining demand that seems to be in the offing. |
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| A frontcourt of DeMarcus Cousins, Rudy Gay and Josh Smith could be in the offing for the Sacramento Kings if they finalize a deal with the Detroit Pistons. |
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| I came to an Anchor in seven fathomes water in the offing to Sea. |
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| Within hours of the death of pop star Michael Jackson, spam trading on his demise hit in-boxes, a security firm said today as it warned that more junk mail was in the offing. |
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