Sentence examples for imminent assault from inspiring English sources

A few thousand men were holed up, awaiting what appeared to be an imminent assault.

James Anderson, the batsman in his sights, moved out of his crease to prepare himself for the imminent assault.

Or they may say something like "I like your bounce, baby," or yell obscenities and other unprintable comments, or threaten imminent assault.

First, Goss had planned an imminent assault on the so-called Jules Verne record for the fastest circumnavigation, which is currently just over 71 days.

The rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr sent messages of conciliation that appeared to have staved off an imminent assault on his fortress in Iraq's holiest Shiite shrine.

Last November, as the investigation into the Paris attacks shifted to Brussels, public transit was suspended and soldiers were deployed to the streets because of the threat of a "serious and imminent" assault on the public.

It also emerged on Sunday that Iraqi intelligence warned of imminent assaults by Islamic State on countries fighting against them in Iraq and Syria.

The investigators were not impressed that Israel warned of imminent assaults via phone call or text messages, because those warnings were often received by people who had too little time to run and nowhere to run to.

Negotiators extended a shaky cease-fire in the volatile city of Falluja on Sunday for at least two more days, defusing the threat of an imminent Marine assault.

Russian and Ukrainian troops in Crimea are involved in a tense stand-off but fears of an imminent Russian assault have eased.

Soldiers of the 3rd Battalion feared that they were in imminent danger of Jordanian assault.