It is even — or rather, especially — when the barbarians (whoever they are) are at the gates, when crisis is inevitable or even imminent, that right action is the only option, whether or not it's likely to succeed.
We can track large objects years in advance, and we don't have any imminent threats right now.
"Logging was overshadowed by mining a long time ago, and now pipelines overshadow everything and take up all the resources and the time and energy of people who are resisting, because it seems like the most imminent threat right now," she said.
When death is not imminent, the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment has not been considered at all in Japan.
For Dr. Pardi, pursuing chemotherapy until death was imminent was the right approach, and the palliative care team led by Dr. Betty Lim fully supported her.
If you're a fan of online media and tech it's worth watching through the entire 56 minutes and 40 seconds but if you don't have the time jump to minute 53 17 when Twitter's Biz Stone randomly walks just as Huffington is talking about acquisitions (which aren't "imminent" she says), "Right now I'm so focused on working with what we have".
In its place, other kinds of losses suddenly seemed imminent: of civil rights, personal safety, financial security, the foundational American values of respect for dissent and difference, the institutions and protections of democracy.
And while a ban on "normalising" surgery is not imminent, the intersex rights movement is already having an impact on medical attitudes and surgical decisions: a growing number of British parents are beginning to choose for their children not to have any surgery.
Last month the human rights legal centre (HRLC) warned there was an "imminent risk" of human rights violations at Don Dale, and urged the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to intervene over the findings of the children's commissioner.
As he contemplates his imminent death he notices, right by his face, "an imbedded fossil, standing forth in low relief from the rock.
