When this statement is reached, it is changed to immediate → await clock(C).
Before that, though, a more immediate challenge awaited.
Fawaz A. Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics, said that many foreign students were feeling a mission to return home and contribute to the reconstruction of their societies, despite the immediate uncertainties awaiting them.
Disappointed Arab leaders who spent the last few months lobbying for a detailed American plan again found themselves in the awkward position of saying they were hoping to learn more about immediate action, awaiting a promised but not yet scheduled trip to the region by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.
Perhaps the most immediate danger awaiting the returnees are the large number of unexploded missiles and other munitions that have been found strewn across the countryside.
"The constitutional change to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is the immediate priority and we await the outcomes from the referendum council's constitutional conventions.
On a surface level, the modern presidential transition is mostly about bringing order to the minutiae of government and public life — packing boxes and choosing schools, preparing for the immediate policy choices that await and filling some 3,300 federal appointments, including some so obscure that only the people who hold them know they exist.
"Several victims, most of them women and children, with their skulls broken, limbs and backs badly bruised, awaited immediate attention at the same time," the Press Trust of India reported.
Stefano Zannini said thousands of people with broken bones and lacerations were awaiting immediate treatment at makeshift MSF tent clinics in the city — 2,000 people had been treated so far.
Peace Now, an advocacy group that opposes Jewish settlement in areas beyond the 1967 boundaries, said in a new report that more than 2,000 housing units were awaiting immediate construction after the moratorium, and that plans for at least 11,000 more housing units had already received full government approval.
