Sentence examples for offering that would have from inspiring English sources

But as Groucho Marx might have put it, they may want to be wary of any initial offering that would have them as a member.

The off-and-on negotiations, they said, began more than a year ago, then became more serious in recent weeks, as AMC scrapped plans for a stock offering that would have raised as much as $450 million.

In the first week of the new year, Rodman was the sole underwriter of an offering that would have been a great bargain if that $5.15 price were a reasonable estimate of the company's value.

S.E.C. filings show that the company had weighed an initial public stock offering that would have valued the company at more than $3 billion, until it was withdrawn last year.

That announcement came days after MicroStrategy filed with the S.E.C. for a new stock offering that would have enabled Mr. Saylor to sell as many as 1.95 million shares, then worth more than $400 million.

On Wednesday, the Nexteer Automotive Group, a steering component supplier and former unit of General Motors that is now owned by Chinese investors, was forced to postpone a Hong Kong initial public offering that would have raised as much as 2.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, or $322 million, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.

My view is that if there indeed were innovative offerings that would have garnered any real consumer interest, the better course would have been to make those ideas public, and let consumers badger the contrarian FCC into submission.

President Bashar al-Assad's government has struggled to cope with the unrest, offering concessions that would have been startling at one time, while using violence against those who persist in demonstrations.

That seems a reasonable response to the challenge of the rankings, as the National Centre for Education Statistics reckons that roughly two-thirds of undergraduates rely on financial aid.Other colleges, though, are trying to drum up excitement by offering perks that would have been unheard of a generation ago.

It is also the most dramatic gesture yet by Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president who came to power last year determined to win Islamabad's help in brokering peace talks with the Taliban by offering concessions that would have been unthinkable under his predecessor, Hamid Karzai.

And in the Senate, they blocked Republicans from offering amendments that would have permitted a full debate.