Avoidance of predators or impending collisions is important for survival.
Sometimes this happens in retrospect, but other times you can feel the importance of the impending moment right while it's happening.
However, despite the huge importance of the impending vote, just 31% of the population identify Britain's membership of/relationship with the EU as one of the three most important issues currently affecting the UK.
This and the impending "AF epidemic" have highlighted the importance of optimal arrhythmia detection.
In the bloody wake of the Mavi Marmara, with its righteous torrent of international outrage, and in view of a new confrontation impending at sea, a point of vital importance has gone missing.
This increase has public health importance with respect to monitoring impending outbreaks of shigellosis and implementing appropriate strategies for containment of this deadly organism.
The importance of maintaining secrecy about the impending raid on Osama bin Laden's compound was likely on Obama's mind.
The addition of abiraterone acetate, sipuleucel-T, cabazitaxel, and denosumab to the therapeutic armamentarium and the impending addition of MDV-3100 and radium-223 underscore the importance of androgen pathway inhibition, immunotherapy, tubulin antagonism, and pathophysiology of bone metastasis.
One of the motorized scooter companies, Bird, responded to a rumor of impending scooter ban with an aggressive statement that stressed the importance of "listening to the people".
Given the impending full-genome sequence of the emydid Chrysemys picta, the importance of emydids as model systems in ecological, evolutionary and developmental studies [ 25- 29], and the endangered status of many contained species [ 30], we view this as an important goal in its own right.
