Sentence examples for reference to the impending from inspiring English sources

It is not clear whether these intercepted messages, which were spoken in Arabic, were a reference to the impending attacks.

In a reference to the impending change of leadership in Washington, Art Sasse, a spokesman for PacifiCorp, said: "It's a flexible framework that recognizes that the administration is going to be passing the baton.

That's a reference to the impending Dec. 31 expiration of the tax cuts of President George W. Bush, and to the start of billions of dollars of across-the-board spending reductions passed in last year's deal to raise the debt ceiling.

In apparent reference to the impending Rio-Chinalco deal, Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said Thursday that the country may amend its foreign ownership laws to treat convertible bonds as similar to equity.

The following year the BBC's Controller of Programmes, Cecil McGivern who had initially feared that viewers would not accept such an unusual name for the leading character —noted in reference to the impending launch of the rival ITV network that: "Had competitive television been in existence then, we would have killed it every Saturday night while [The Quatermass Experiment] lasted.

I just wanted to get out of here," he said, a reference to his impending transfer back to the United States.

In the petition to Sotomayor, Glossip's lawyers warn their client "will suffer the most irreparable injury known to the law" if no relief is granted -- a reference to his impending death and a riff on the legal standard that courts observe when weighing other kinds of 11th-hour requests.

Recently on that program, Breitbart had threatened that, within three weeks, he wanted "to be in the history books saying I took down the institutional left," triggering a flurry of satirical references on Twitter to the impending "Breitbartocalypse".

Gov. James E. McGreevey returned to the public stage on Wednesday, delivering prepared remarks at a bill-signing ceremony here, but made only a glancing reference to his impending departure from office.

The writers admitted they had re-written a few lines to make a reference to Cowell's impending fatherhood but the music mogul said he did not expect many more re-writes.

The faked prescriptions, the references to Annette's impending death, the lecture about the perfect murder, the bizarre lies, the shaved eyebrows, the e-mailed toxicology inquiries: these didn't exactly seem like the product of a cunning mind.