Sentence examples for offers cut off from inspiring English sources

They frequently low-ball home-purchase offers, cut off utilities and even hire gangs of thugs to terrorize homeowners.

Both Mississippi State Coach Dan Mullen and Greg Byrne, the athletic director at the time, rejected Rogers's offers, cut off communication with him and made the SEC aware of the offer.

The standard punishment would have been 10 hours of community service, but he offered to cut off five hours if they would go to the opera with him.

Even the heads of Macau's secret-society triads were quick to deny responsibility, and offered to cut off their finger-tips as a sign of good faith.The violence in Macau continues apace.

Occasionally, in a real stinker of a situation, someone low in the food chain is quickly offered up to cut off a possible investigation.

Aylisli's books were burned, his title of "People's Writer" revoked, and a reward was offered to anyone who cut off his ear.

"I had his jowls, too, but I had them cut off," she offers.

He added: "If the N.H.L. offers them a hand to cut off, well, they're going to do it.

"I like the moral fibre of Dylan's lyrics," he offers, a man who recently cut off his Iggy mop and now sports sensible short hair.

His wife and son lost their jobs, his books were burned and a reward was offered to anyone who would cut off his ear.

What the ultimatum game reveals is that even though a responder would always gain by accepting the offered share, he will sometimes cut off his own nose to spite his face, as it were, punishing a proposer by rejecting an unfair offer.