Eva's tone is elegiac, a toast written for some future wake to be held in honor of the glorious, impending past: "But you said that if the U.S. were to fall or founder during your lifetime, collapse economically, be overrun by an aggressor, or corrupt from within into something vicious, you would weep".
Neither Rupert Murdoch, nor his son James, were told about the impending arrests of past and present Sun executives until the Saturday morning when they were taking place.
In one way or other, of course, fiction is often about just that: sorting through consequences — the past impending on the present and setting into sometimes astonishing motion the future.
A succession of redundancies and impending departures over the past few months at ITV Productions has reduced the number of full-time arts programming staff from 12 to four.
Many leaders in aviation, both in Government and industry, fear that past and impending cuts in the Federal budget pose a serious threat to the continued unfettered flow of the nation's air traffic as limits on the number of controllers lead to restrictions on the number of flights.
What is clear is that whether it was because of his troubled past, his impending 37th birthday, the downturn in the economy or a combination of the three factors, the market Boras envisioned for Ramirez never materialized.
Are the recent past and impending future extinctions, unambiguously caused by humans, different?
Now, a year after the death of Dolly [ 3], it is appropriate to review the current regulatory position on the creation and use of cloned embryos around the world [ 4, 5] – particularly considering the public debate that has surrounded the recent cloning experiments in Korea, the granting of the first "research cloning" license in the UK, and the past and impending UN cloning debates.
Past glories and impending doom are staples of every news cycle, and have been since the Babylonians.
The mobilisation of capital will be fitful as the financial system copes with past mistakes and impending regulation.
An elderly person, who reminds us not only of the past but the impending arrival of death?
