offing

"A Google cloud service could now be in the offing as soon as September, said sources familiar with the talks." Wait, what?

Shutting down the program will no longer be enough - there is an impeachment in the offing. What will be enough to call off the dogs?

There is no pair goof-offing. That's why most programmers don't like long period of pair programming.

The built-in Reminders app on the iPhone is great for list-crossing-offing.

Is it that hard to detect that major scope changes are in the offing before submitting a proposal?

I don't think there's been a day in my life in which I haven't contemplated the ramifications of offing myself. Each and every time, I reach the same conclusion - it would be pointless.

Galt's Gulch bottled mineral water may soon be in the offing. Mr Johnson is also building guest haciendas to house not only prospective buyers, but also, he hopes, tourists.

But you don't exactly see millions of people offing themselves, so clearly the human spirit survives such adverse conditions?

He tried to pull a change that suggests that some more staff reductions are in the offing and he tried to use and excuse that doesn't even fly if you hate the ACA. I am constantly amazed that he has a job, but I guess the fiscals will forgive a lot.

Maybe DK had licensed it from getty Images but didn't buy an exclusive, or maybe there's a copyright lawsuit in the offing. Anyway, delicious irony.

Didn't realise a blog post would be in the offing;sorry. Perhaps next time publish the blog post, submit here, then the announce list email, then the individual customer emails, that way you wouldn't be tipping off lots of possible submitters before you're ready.

I mean, to me it looks pretentious and lame and I'd never use it, but it seems like it'd be legally actionable if there was actual copyright violations in the offing.

There's nothing stopping anyone taking assets and offing him in some remote desolate field where nobody would find him. Considering the amount of attention McAfee has received, if he were to disappear there would be some serious questions so I doubt they'd kill him.

She tells me that knowing she's making a difference is what keeps her going and offing herself is not an option anymore, because it would be like abandoning those terrified animals inside slaughterhouses. And I noticed that her self-esteem has improved and that she spends more time improving herself, so she can be more effective in her mission.

I agree: certainly, for a one-off offing, the practicalities would be a major execution obstacle, making the scenario highly implausible. But killing people is one of the things these organizations do for a living -- the practicalities might well have been dealt with years ago.

I would go to great pains to avoid hard-offing a production server but you must acknowledge that in the age of solid journaled filesystems, hard-offs almost never lead to actual bad consequences, especially for light usage patterns. I'm sure it's worse on some hardware configurations but I've never met a system where it got all the way to "usually bad" territory.

There doesn't seem to be any "something else" in the offing, which makes that million-solar-mass thing in the centre of our galaxy deeply mysterious. A new theory that makes an old "settled" phenomenon mysterious is not all that uncommon in the sciences, so it's reasonable to take a wait-and-see attitude toward this idea, but I'm not enormously hopeful that it'll pan out very well in the long run.