Pundits were press ing Alf Ramsey to make pronouncements about the 1970 World Cup, but, inscrutable as ever, he went silently on holiday before the imminent beginning of the new season.
"I think people realized that with the imminent beginning of Obamacare, that this was a critical time to make every effort to stop something," Mr. Meese said in an interview.
Word that resignations were imminent began emerging late Friday.
THE Soviet Union had three years left when rumbles hinting at its imminent collapse began to reverberate in the Caucasus.
Even before school started last week, proof of its imminent reality began to arrive in the mail: teacher assignments, supply lists, free-lunch forms, releases.
Rumors of his imminent resignation began to appear periodically in the Italian news media in recent years, as the pope appeared increasingly frail in public appearances.
In the spring of 1998, believing a referendum on the euro was imminent, he began to look for a seat in the European parliament.
"Welcome to hell," read one of the many fresh pieces of graffiti addressed to him near the Stadio Artemio Franchi as rumours of his imminent appointment began to spread back in June.
Barely had the dust settled on its sale to SABMiller than, with a merger of SABMiller and AB InBev now imminent, reports began to circulate that that this new company may soon sell Meantime on.
I saw everything with Jean-Louis Trintignant, until he got so old that his imminent death began to be too depressing, and then I switched to Louis Garrel, who is beautiful enough to live forever.
It's hard to say, for instance, who should really get credit, or blame, for "Downfall," also known as "Hitler reacts" or "the Hitler meme". This involves a dramatic scene from the 2004 film "Downfall," in which the actor Bruno Ganz, as Hitler, realizes his defeat is imminent and begins screaming at his subordinates.
