The foray into Beit Jala was the first time that Israel had entered a Palestinian-ruled zone for an indefinite stay, a new benchmark in a Middle East crisis that has been deteriorating by the day, with no hint of imminent political talks that might put a lid on the violence.
For all the hints of an imminent conflict here, Incirlik Air Base exudes a businesslike atmosphere, a place where, according to a recent article in Air Force Magazine, crews have launched 21,000 flights over the past decade.
Above all, The Wind in the Willows makes a powerful contribution to the mythology of Edwardian England not only through its evocation of the turning seasons of the English countryside, from the riverbank in summer to the rolling open road, but also through its hints of an imminent class struggle from the inhabitants (stoats and weasels) of the Wild Wood.
The contract dispute is approaching the two-week mark with no hint of an imminent settlement.
He gave no hint of his imminent departure in his post-match media conference.
People had been noticing hints of Android Pay's imminent UK plans, but this is the first official confirmation from Google of the service.
Hamas reacted furiously to the elections decree, giving no hint of readiness for power sharing or of imminent reconciliation.
She called it a "finely hand-drawn lithograph", and considered the work to be "the only hint of Lichtenstein's imminent obsession with American popular culture".
After flatly stating that Mahler, in his Third and Seventh Symphonies, "hinted at a future ecological disaster" and, in his Sixth, "warned of imminent world war," Mr. Lebrecht backtracks.
Not suggestive of imminent harmony.
