Sentence examples for looming event from inspiring English sources

Of The Times's own pay model for its Web site, though, all that has trickled into print is an initial story 14 months ago announcing that the plan would be carried out in a year, plus occasional subsequent references to the looming event.

It does not unfold in the sunny spring and summer before the disaster, placing the shallow high jinks and aspirations of the characters in stark relief by our knowledge of the looming event, ending perhaps with a dissipated yuppie waking on that September morning and relishing what a nice blue day it is outside.

Another looming event that will exacerbate the situation is the April implementation of market-to-market accounting rules, which will require Japanese companies to value their equity holdings in other companies at their current prices rather than the price at which they were bought.

I want to be that person for whom this looming event has no meaning -- or at least no negative meaning.

Neither the World Cup nor FIFA, its organizing body, are completely to blame for the frustration and indignation Brazilians feel over the looming event.

We can and will affect the future, but we cannot predict it, however bleak it now seems, and our understanding of our inability to see beyond the looming event horizon must give us the hope and the strength to fight on.

Two looming events have helped make Thai politics so frenzied.

"This has long been considered one of the looming events in Holocaust education: What are we going to do when the last survivor passes," said David G. Marwell, director of the heritage museum.

But two looming events — an automatic $1.2 trillion budget "sequester" hitting defense and domestic spending, and the expiration of all of President George W. Bush's tax cuts — will create pressure for the two parties to strike a compromise.

And still looming is "event risk," like the threat of a European country defaulting on its debt.

Mills said his programme also "elliptically and subtly" took in another looming political event, the Scottish independence referendum, which will happen weeks after the end of the festival.