Sentence examples for imminence from inspiring English sources

Specifically, the legalisation of torturing the guilty faces the problem of imminence; unlike killing in self-defence it almost never involves an imminent threat.

It will simply be the imminence of polling day.

Some economists reckon that the outlook for the big rich economies is similarly grizzly.The reason why markets are nervous is not just the imminence of war with Iraq, but the evidence that, even without a war, the world economy is in worse shape than many had thought.

If terrorists managed to slip through the security at Domodedovo, Russia's best-run airport, then Russians will wonder whether the impressive security trappings of what increasingly resembles a police state are worth anything at all.Fears of terrorism have been stoked by the imminence of this weekend's presidential election in Chechnya.

He wrote, "There never was a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat".

After the Iraqis bowed to the imminence of American bombs and agreed to resume co-operation with Unscom, Mr Butler demanded that they produce a slew of documents deemed vital to Unscom's work.

But that movie, although much admired, was not a typical Hepburn story: its theme was ageing and the imminence of death.

He was still guilty of misleading the public about the nature and imminence of the Iraqi threat.Mr Howard was going a good deal further than the more nuanced judgment of the report.

New projections recently published by the European Commission spell out both the magnitude and the imminence of the shift.

There is a dark suspicion that the Nigerians supplied the force's Indian commander with misinformation, exaggerating the imminence of the danger to Freetown.

He thinks that Chinese analysts now appear less certain of the imminence of a "multipolar" world order than they did at the end of the cold war.