It is a term they often use to explain politics behind the North's rocket launching and its detention and impending indictment of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, both reporters of San Francisco-based Current TV, who were arrested by North Korean soldiers at the border with China on March 17.
Detention centre manager Broadspectrum's proposal earlier this week to recast Manus Island as an "open" detention centre was clearly designed to circumvent the impending decision, and give credibility to an argument that the 850 men held on Manus were not detained.
Some people outside the administration who are involved in Guantánamo issues said the political and international pressure on the detention center had now combined with concerns about the impending Supreme Court case in accelerating consideration of potential options.
Detention -- the deprivation of a person's right to freedom of movement, especially if no trial is impending or any charges are likely -- is nearly universal, though it can take many forms.
Pending the retrial which few think will lead to a conviction lawyers agree there are no legal grounds to keep Mr Mubarak in detention.But his impending release sends a negative signal.
Bernanke's impending departure.
What's more, detention begets more detention.
There is an impending crisis.
The impending release comes after officials said Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had told Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that he was hearing increasing complaints from other countries about the indefinite detention of their citizens at the naval base at Guantánamo.
