The person might mumble prayers or be "pacing back and forth in front of a venue". The police group's guidelines also say the threat to officers does not have to be "imminent," as police training traditionally teaches.
It is a big blow for Scholes, and also for United, even though the return of Owen Hargreaves for Saturday's Premier League win over Middlesbrough and the imminent return to training of Michael Carrick, who dislocated an elbow against Roma earlier this month, negate the impact slightly.
Swansea, for their part, are certainly in need of a greater goal threat, and the imminent return to training of the injured Michu, their top scorer last season, cannot come soon enough.
Munich remained on high alert on New Year's Day after police received what they called "concrete warnings" from foreign intelligence services that a Paris-style terrorist attack was imminent on two train stations in the city during new year celebrations.
The end of his medical training was imminent, and with it his retirement as a runner.
When researchers began to adapt the models to New Orleans, they became convinced, as one of them put it to me, that "we had this train wreck imminent".
In a hastily called news conference in Berlin, the country's interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, said the government had "concrete indications of a series of attacks planned for the end of November," and German, Pakistani and American officials offered similar accounts of intelligence that pointed to imminent attacks by terrorists trained in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
We called the trains an imminent danger to public safety.
And just like that, the imminent threat; the well trained, ice wielding blizzard terrorists instantly transformed, like birthday party magic, into a traveling troupe of white fairy performers who pranced and danced outside our windows drunk on the heady brisk spirit of spontaneous joy.
Sessions signaled that the shift was imminent while addressing an annual training conference for the hundreds of US immigration judges on Monday.
