Sentence examples for have been imminent from inspiring English sources

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.

Officials said they decided to disrupt any plot that might have been imminent, but the raid came before investigators understood the suspect's intentions, according to several federal officials.

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.

ISAF is reluctant to tell Pakistani border forces precisely when and where it is carrying out operations against insurgents because it believes (with some justification) that the Taliban and their allies have in the past been tipped off by the Pakistanis when raids have been imminent.

Maassen told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper Wednesday that his agency believes the attack could have been imminent.

For more than a year death has been imminent; it is too cruelly slow a process.

Mr. Castor said he did not believe an attack had been imminent.

He seemed, instead, skeptical that such a collapse had been imminent.

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.

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.