The Foreign Office took Weizsäcker's appointment as a sign that Ribbentrop was a man, who, though personally disagreeable and unpleasant, was one they could work under: no radical changes were in the offing.

The feeling was widespread that another debacle like that of Indochina in 1954 was in the offing and that the government would order another precipitate pullout and sacrifice French honor to political expediency.

Although he had warned the President between 25 and 30 January that " widespread " communist attacks were in the offing, his admonitions had tended to be so oblique or so hedged with official optimism that even the administration was unprepared.

This compromise theory was however probably a later day addition as a major PPP armed rally was in the offing.

On June 10, 1778, the Board of War of the Continental Congress concluded that a major Indian war was in the offing.

No rift was in the offing at that time.

By the 1980s, a critique of eco-Marxism was in the offing, given empirical data from countries ( mostly in Western Europe like the Netherlands, Western Germany and somewhat the United Kingdom ) that were attempting to wed environmental protection with economic growth instead of seeing them as separate.

As it was now clear that a battle was in the offing, Jenkins asked for reinforcements from nearby British East India Company troops.

While privately convinced that launching a strike under these conditions would be a mistake, and aware that the AFL leadership felt even more strongly on this subject, Foster nonetheless continued to organize as if a strike was in the offing.

Agar then served as Captain of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, England, but with war in the offing he was returned to command of the Emerald in the summer of 1939.

A launch indeed was soon in the offing, but not the predicted mission.

A launch indeed was soon in the offing, but not the predicted mission.

After cruising the Mediterranean Sea, and with war in the offing Jolie Brise returned to Southampton and was put up for sale.

Knowing that a severe storm was in the offing, Nelson had intended that the fleet should anchor after the battle, but Collingwood chose not to issue such an order: many of the British ships and prizes were so damaged that they were unable to anchor, and Collingwood concentrated efforts on taking damaged vessels in tow.

More change was in the offing, however.

Perhaps these years of relative silence were filled with preparation for the two fine works in the offing, the first of which was to appear in 1931.

Hood deployed briefly to the Baltic Sea in 1920, when trouble with the Bolsheviks was in the offing, but it soon blew over.

Although names were redacted in her plea agreement at court, she had said she heard two people ordering Aquash to be brought from Denver to Rapid City and that there was a discussion about " offing her ".

A symposium would be overseen by a " symposiarch " who would decide how strong the wine for the evening would be, depending on whether serious discussions or merely sensual indulgence were in the offing.

As the play opens, the Moorish invasion of Spain is in the offing ; King Roderick musters his army and places it under the command of Julianus.

He wrote that: " We passed the Isle of Muck, with its one low hill ; saw the pyramidal mountains of Rum looming tall in the offing ; and then, running along the Isle of Eigg, with its colossal Scuir rising between us and the sky, as if it were a piece of Babylonian wall, or the great wall of China, only vastly larger, set down on the ridge of a mountain, we entered the channel which separates the isle from one of its dependencies, Eilean Chathastail, and cast anchor in the tideway.

The Indian Express wrote in 2011, " Three years later, as another organisational reshuffle is in the offing, Rahul ’ s dream remains unrealised with party veterans manipulating internal elections in the Youth Congress and a host of people with questionable background gaining entry into it.

and use of the foam for garment interlining is only now getting off the ground, with volume potential in the offing.

With the end of the Civil War and increased government supervision in the offing, Durant hired his former M & M engineer Grenville M. Dodge to build the railroad and the Union Pacific began a mad dash.

* 沖 oki ( offing, offshore ; Ch.

When looking at a sea from a shore, the part of the sea closest to the horizon is called the offing.

The Liberals had a candidate who had been nursing the electorate ; Labor had no candidate selected and a bitter preselection in the offing.

" Not near the top of her form, but remarkable as a treatment of the newly wedded and bedded pair of eccentrics ... with Bunter in the offing and three local characters, chiefly comic.

With the prospect of independence celebrations in the offing, the opposition's morale fell.

The nightmare lasted about three weeks ; then, on the rumor of an imperial fleet in the offing, Raynald gave the order for re-embarkation.

An accomplished brain surgeon, he seems to have everything: a promotion in the offing ; the favor of the hospital's director, Heinemann ; and Heinemann's daughter Eva as his fiancée.

For centuries the most celebrated of Japanese poets with the women gathering seaweed at low tide, the fishermen in the offing, the stocks standing on one leg in the water or flying above the rushed of the salt marsh.

Now that the tour is completed, Neeley plans to focus on other projects that have been in the offing for some time.

That way was barred on both sides of the road by a high barbed-wire fence.

The children of John and Katherine, while legitimised, were barred from ever inheriting the English throne, a stricture that was ignored in later generations.

Because of Henry's descent through illegitimate children barred from succession to the English throne, the Tudor monarchy was not accepted by all European kingdoms.

The relevance of Morgan's recanted statement would later be debated in trial, but was eventually barred from admission as evidence.

Under the liberalization rules of the day ( 1979 ), BT was barred from manufacturing, selling or supplying PBXs of more than 200 extensions.

As a congressman, LaGuardia represented an ethnically diverse slum district in East Harlem and, although barred from important committee posts because of his political independence, he was a tireless and vocal champion of Progressive causes.

Photius was deposed and barred from the patriarchal office, while Ignatius was reinstated.

In 1530, Catherine was banished from court and spent the remainder of her life ( until her death in 1536 ) alone in an isolated manor home, barred from any contact with Mary ( although her ladies-in-waiting helped the two maintain a secret correspondence ).

Philip of Anjou was confirmed as Philip V, king of Spain ; Emperor Leopold did not get the throne, but Philip V was barred from inheriting France.

Pequot settled with the SEC for US $ 28 million and Arthur J. Samberg, chief investment officer of Pequot, was barred from working as an investment advisor.

He was constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 election, which was won by Mwai Kibaki.

However, in the previous parliamentary elections in 2002, Tito's opponents won major victories, and in March 2003 he was ousted in a no-confidence vote ( having served the maximum three terms, he is barred by the constitution to run for another term ).

However, it was barred from participating in the next election in 1988 under the revised Knesset Elections Law banning parties that incited racism.

The party was also barred from standing in the 1992 election, and both organisations were banned outright in 1994.

However many of these original members of Long Parliament, such as were barred from the final acts of the Long Parliament and executed by King Charles II upon his restoration, claimed that the Long Parliament was never legally dissolved.

Kahane was thus the first candidate in Israel to be barred from election for racism.

Milken was sentenced to ten years in prison and permanently barred from the securities industry by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

He was barred from returning to Afghanistan during Soviet-backed Communist rule in the late 1970s.

It was brutal, no holds barred.

Philip II of Spain's ( 1556 – 1598 ) high-handed interference at the previous conclave was not forgotten: he had barred all but seven cardinals.

When he was crowned, Richard barred all Jews and women from the ceremony, but some Jewish leaders arrived to present gifts for the new king.