However, the request for aid doesn't seem to be so imminent as expected.
The threat of a rising Raritan was so imminent that some town officials missed the presentation on flood reduction, choosing instead to remain at the municipal command post in case the waters peaked too high.
For my father, one of CND's early founders, apocalypse was so imminent that he had to turn the car round on a holiday to Wales and go home to collect the large jar of suicide pills he kept for the whole family, in case of nuclear attack.
It has thus never been so crucial to understand the meaning of revelation and the experience of the absolute, for the danger of the rise of an idol or a false god has never been so imminent.
Skeptics such as James Randi suggest that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who fit his words to events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process sometimes known as "retroactive clairvoyance" (postdiction).
To hear some talk, the inevitable failure of the Lib-Con coalision isoso clear, its imminent collapse into unpopularity so evident, that all we need to do is recharge our batteries and find a more telegenic leader to win next time.
"The unique threat to American security by Saddam Hussein's regime is so real, grave and imminent that, even if no other nation were to stand with us, we must be prepared to act alone," said Mr. Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2004.
For the frog, gradually rising heat causes no alarm — until the water is so hot that death is imminent.
