Sentence examples for specific imminent from inspiring English sources

Yet as the report describes, intelligence is rarely clear enough to point to a specific, imminent attack.

"We are aware of a specific, imminent threat to Westerners in Benghazi," the Foreign Office advisory said.

I hasten to add, we have no credible information pointing to a specific imminent attack or the timing or execution of such an attack.

Although some useful information was produced, the report concluded that "it is difficult to determine conclusively whether interrogations have provided information critical to interdicting specific imminent attacks," according to the Justice Department's declassified summary of it.

"Although there is no specific information pointing to specific, imminent threats against U.S. citizens, the potential for violence and kidnappings targeting Westerners in Benghazi is significant," read the American message, posted on the Web site of the United States Embassy in Tripoli, the capital.

The notice came only days after Britain and other European nations issued urgent warnings to their citizens to leave the Libyan city of Benghazi, 2,500 miles northwest of Somaliland, because of what Britain described as "a specific, imminent threat to Westerners".

Britain cited a "specific and imminent" threat but officials declined to give any further details.

However, the lobby says this can only be done when there is a specific and imminent threat.

Prosecutors, who have said they had no knowledge that the men were planning a specific or imminent attack, nonetheless alluded to "catastrophes of biblical proportion".

The New York City Police Department released a statement on Friday that it had "no credible intelligence pointing to a specific or imminent terrorist threat" in the city.

Mr Hammond, in advising British nationals to leave, said intelligence indicated that a "further terrorist attack" was "highly likely" – that is different from a "specific or imminent threat".