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impending

If something is impending, it is approaching or about to happen or expected to happen. I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.

impending

(= at hand, close at hand, imminent) close in time; about to occur retribution is at hand some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand in imminent danger his impending retirement

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Simple sentences

The impending examination loomed large in her mind.
This is one of the signs of weakness and the impending doom of imperialism.

Movie subtitles

So you would say he was at peace with his impending death?
Black Larson swept on to impending doom.
When at last he returned to his silent, shuttered house in Mayfair. he could not overcome a sense of something ominous impending.
He's delighted at my lady's impending marriage.
The common people are always first to sense impending disaster.
A toast? Our impending separation.
I have an unfailing sixth sense for impending danger.
The light is impending.
Low morale goes hand in hand with defeat after defeat followed by impending defeat.
He thought they were signals of impending catastrophe.
Well, it came as such a shock. and your impending arrival completely slipped my mind.
Here's the impending Alphabet note.
Oh, mirror birds, the guarding birds, the birds of vision, deliver us from the impending destruction.
My termination was triggered by the impending arrival of my replacement.
I must warn you about the impending visit of the Spanish envoy.
As plans for the impending invasion. of Europe were speeded up. agents of Operation 77 were broken up into combat teams. and given their final briefing.
I don't know the people involved, I don't know the circumstances. but I sense an impending disaster.
Impending disaster.
Well, Marsh, it would've taught us a great deal about the theory of instinct, give us new insights into an animal's inner knowledge of its impending doom, raised tremendous questions about the very nature of life and death.
Then why do I have this feeling of impending disaster?
Boy, when you get a feeling of impending disaster, it works like a charm, doesn't it?
Fuji. It and the primeval Aokigahara forest are silent, as if awaiting the impending full-scale giant-monster attack against the Kilaak base.
Instead of what is indicated here, what if I walk away from him after that line as if I could see the impending holocaust?
Their sense of impending loss is inconsolable.
One of your superiors was aware of the impending epidemic. and didn't want to take any chances.
War is impending.
I read the news of your impending sale while I was on safari in Tanganyika yesterday.
How can I put it? Impending disaster. - Disaster?
The light is impending. I bear witness to the light!
This is my brother DarryI, and my other brother DarryI. We was over at Peterson's Drugs...when we heard about your impending nuptials. Which one of us is going to be your best man?
So we start to fool around and it's the first time, and it's early in the going and I begin to perceive this impending intestinal requirement whose needs are going to surpass, by great lengths anything in the sexual realm.
No kidding? - I can save you from poor seamanship, Rupert, but I'm no good on impending marriages.
We're dealing with impending respiratory failure.
Notice, no fear. No sense of impending doom.
Evidences for impending courts martial.
Nivesen has concurred and will warn us of each impending inspection.
Do I love her, or the impending wattle?
I'd love to stay and chat about our impending doom, but. I can't take it!

News and current affairs

President Barack Obama has offered numerous proposals to invest in the foundations of national competitiveness, but Congressional Republicans have rebuffed them, claiming that the US faces an impending fiscal crisis.
But the impending shifts in Britain's politics and its EU relations are bound to draw attention to the economy's extreme dependence on foreign finance.
Instead, they will be blamed for not seeing an impending catastrophe that was staring them in the face.
Today, the Bush administration is engaged in a disinformation campaign about an impending social security crisis.
Warning signs of impending inflation abound across the euro zone.
But, while celebrity activists warn about the impending doom posed by climate change, a more realistic view is offered by these cities' ability to cope.
But the failure of IMF leaders to produce a forward-looking strategy to confront impending market turmoil would undermine progress in all of these areas.
Perhaps the most pressing constraint on agricultural production is the impending labor shortage, as rural young people, who traditionally comprise the agricultural labor force, flock to cities.
We therefore propose that contributions to the EMF should be based on member countries' fiscal deficits and public debt levels, because both represent warning signs of impending liquidity or insolvency risk.
The reason is understandable: growth remains anemic in most countries, and many fear the US Federal Reserve's impending interest-rate hike.
Perhaps another occurred in 1998, when the Fed lowered interest rates in the face of what appeared to be an impending global financial crisis.
Instead, we Russians will find ourselves trying to avert an impending economic crisis.
They must be able to respond to new and impending developments without delay, constantly experimenting with new ideas and processes.
The pace and scope of technological progress makes predicting impending developments, and how they will affect education, virtually impossible.
Likewise, India is all in a quandary over how to handle protocol during Sarkozy's impending visit to the subcontinent as the guest of honor at the country's Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
More than a year later, in July 2010, prosecutor Fabio Picuti charged the Commission members with manslaughter and negligence for failing to warn the public of the impending risk.
The renminbi fluctuated without a clear trend until mid-September, when it appreciated sharply, apparently in response to increased US pressure stemming from the impending congressional vote.
Despite warnings about impending horrors, action was timid.
Just as a few of us warned of impending crisis in the 2003-2006 period, some - including the Bank of International Settlements and the IMF- are sounding the alarm today, but to no avail.
In dispatches from the Pacific Islands, Bangladesh, or Ethiopia, journalists warn of impending calamity.
That danger extends beyond 2015; nonetheless, it is an important component of the overall picture of impending crisis in the EU.
But, lest we forget: in the summer 1914, most actors regarded the impending disaster as an impossibility.

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