Sentence examples for collapse was imminent from inspiring English sources

Mr. Buckley-Farlee, who has a collapsed lung condition, said that once when he felt a collapse was imminent, he called in sick and was told to find a replacement.

Scott Hill, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said auto stocks had been badly beaten down this year because of concerns that strong auto sales were unsustainable and, in the view of bears, a collapse was imminent.

Local councils pointed out that they had been given legal advice that the Icelandic banks had three star credit ratings, and there was no way of predicting this collapse was imminent.

Indeed, a grand jury report that led to the charges said, the pier's owner, Michael Asbell, and the nightclub's owner, Eli Karetny, were warned by an expert just hours before the accident that a collapse was imminent, but decided to open for business anyway.

Where were most of these bears two to four years ago, when the danger of market collapse was imminent?

Now Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin have been arrested and charged with talking up the prospects of two Bear funds, all the while knowing that collapse was imminent.

For some the collapse is imminent, for others a few years off.

The effect is of a pile of books that has been skewed and tilted, to the point where collapse is imminent but just averted.

Now, physicists studying laboratory yeast have found a new way to tell when such a collapse is imminent.

The breakage of bonding between sand particles at a borehole wall usually precedes the borehole failure and it can be considered as a sign that the onset of the borehole collapse is imminent in granular formations.

If the program's collapse is imminent, as they say, then there's no point in worrying about the roughly 20 million people who now get coverage through the program.