In May 1999, Dr. Venter, confident of Celera's impending success, observed that the National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust were "putting good money after bad".
Even as bits of the science lab were claimed by the waves, he would have been insisting on the impending success of his facilities renewal plan, or blaming a lack of commitment in the scree.
By then, at about 2am, news of impending success had leaked to an Iranian news agency, and it had to be angrily denied to ensure that it would ultimately be proved right.
Visiting the Finger Lakes (which are closer to Canada than New York City), you can taste the excitement about the region's impending success.
Yet a year and a half into this presidency, with increasing levels of protection and retaliation afflicting the American economy, the promises of impending success seem ever less plausible.
A meeting hosted by the Brexit Central website saw speakers rail against "Project Fear 2.0" – the nay-sayers and boo-boys who continue to talk Blighty down and deny the obvious truth of Brexit's impending success.
It's sort of like one of Rick Ross's Maybach Music compilation albums or that Young Money/Cash Money collection from a while back, a label showcase that could have just as well been given out for free at the G.O.O.D. Music megatour that's seemingly unavoidable given this album's impending success.
Their primary purpose was to inform the royal court of impending disaster or success.
Perhaps the whole Cannes debacle was a subconscious attempt to subvert the impending spectre of success, putting a gun to his own head before someone else placed a crown upon it?
Over the years, you've stuffed your fear cubby with public speaking, evil clowns, unemployment, your own success, visible failure, impending mortality, spiders, and a pile of nagging neuroses.
Parents are approaching this rite of childhood with a combination of excitement and dread as they ponder the impending vicissitudes: the thrill of success, and the agony of defeat -- not the euphemism, the real deal -- registering in every fiber of their child's being and right there for everyone to see.
