Sentence examples for had been imminent from inspiring English sources
Mr. Castor said he did not believe an attack had been imminent.
He seemed, instead, skeptical that such a collapse had been imminent.
Terri Rosen Deutsch, chief of staff of the Landmarks Commission, said that although the organization had not set a date for a landmarks hearing, she believed the procedure had been imminent.
The government expressed doubt about how close an accused Islamist cell may have been to staging suicide attacks in Barcelona, questioning the view of Judge Ismael Moreno of the National Court on Wednesday, when he said that such bombings had been imminent and ordered nine Pakistanis and an Indian arrested last weekend to be kept in custody.
The men were stationed on the island to keep the guns in good working order but the garrison would have been reinforced by regular artillery and volunteer troops if ever an invasion had been imminent.
Police have arrested four men on suspicion of allegedly plotting to carry out a terrorist attack, which security sources say may have been imminent.
An article in Sunday's Corriere della Sera, Italy's leading newspaper, said an attack on the embassy might have been imminent before the arrests last week.
Another colleague, the late Cary Lu, a much-beloved tech journalist and mentor, offered a modest proposal in 1996 to ward off the threatened infopocalypse that has been imminent, but never materialized, every year since: text-only Mondays.
But as it happens, Alan Gilbert has canceled his appearances this week to see to the birth of his first child, said to have been imminent at the time of the announcement.
The omnipresent and deadly threat to the novel has been imminent now for a long time – getting on, I would say, for a century – and so it's become part of culture.
