Sentence examples for offer struck from inspiring English sources

The offer struck many as dangerous because the area is among the most hostile in the country to foreign soldiers and is heavily influenced by the Taliban.

That offer struck a chord with Wolf, who grew up in the city.

Following the disaster in 1912, numerous official inquiries resulted in a myriad of reforms, from standardizing SOS signals to requiring ocean liners to maintain radio communications at all times which offer striking parallels with the current situation.

Mr. Dellaverson said management's offer "strikes a careful balance between the needs of our customers, who are facing significant fare increases as well as possible service reductions, and our workforce".

Some rooms offer striking skyline views.

Romanian society and economy between the wars offered striking contrasts between persistent underdevelopment and burgeoning, if uneven, industrialization and urbanization.

Its lovely hillside park offers striking Manhattan views and has a recreation complex with a gym and an Olympic-size outdoor pool.

Instead, US Airways executives offered what struck me as a reasonably forthright presentation laying out where their airline, the smallest of the top five carriers, now stands.

Union leaders at the Volkswagen plant in Mexico said today that the company must substantially improve its wage offer after striking workers overwhelmingly rejected its latest proposal.

The parent company of Sallie Mae, the student lender, cut its profit forecast for 2008 on Wednesday and said that its offer to strike a new deal with a group of investors had been rejected.

In the name of clarity, a lot of authors offer what strike me as basically pre-fabricated structures of feeling, leaving no room for the reader to participate in the construction of meaning.