Meanwhile, the trade's most visible real-life practitioners have been Lizzie Grubman, who backed her car into a crowd in 2001, and Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, who was Iraq's minister of information, who amused the world with his delusional dispatches on the imminent defeat of the coalition forces.
Some Chileans blamed officials for issuing erroneous or insufficient warnings about the imminent tsunami risk, or of not dispatching aid with sufficient speed.
A counterattack by the regime was imminent; according to reports, Assad had dispatched a large armored column to retake the city, and rebels to the south were attacking the troops, trying to slow them down.
Not that military action against Iraq is imminent, administration officials said, expressing similar caution about dispatching international peacekeepers to Afghanistan.
Lorencez was sure of his imminent victory; he proclaimed as much in an April 25 dispatch to Paris: We are so superior to the Mexicans in race, in organization, in discipline, in morality and in elevation of feeling, that I beg your Excellency to be so good as to inform the emperor that, at the head of 6,000 soldiers, I am already master of Mexico.
Palestinians challenged the suggestion by some Israeli officials that the helicopters were dispatched at short notice to frustrate an imminent attack.
To assist the operator in proactively responding to an imminent event such as a hurricane, a risk-averse generation dispatch model is presented in this paper based on security-constrained AC optimal power flow.
The Weather Channel dispatched its correspondents and began reporting on an imminent winter blitz.
In this same episode Olive intervenes in not one but two near-deaths -- while trying to distract former student Kevin in his car from imminent suicide she sees Penny from the coffee shop disappear over the cliff and dispatches Kevin to save her.
Belisarius dispatched Solomon to Constantinople to bear the emperor news of the victory, but expecting an imminent re-appearance of Gelimer with his army, he lost no time in repairing the largely ruined walls of the city and rendering it capable of sustaining a siege.
