Like they said of the imminent prospect of the hangman, it concentrated the mind.
Yet even then, there was the imminent prospect of Petit being dislodged by a police helicopter.
Faced with eviction, he was staring last month at the imminent prospect of joining the teeming ranks of the homeless.
Yet the imminent prospect of Progress entering government has alarmed the handful of Utoya survivors who ran as Labour candidates.
But many others live in limbo, encouraged by the government to believe in the imminent prospect of return to the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
He is likely to speak on the imminent prospect of newspapers being subject to exemplary damages if they are not members of a regulator backed by the Royal Charter.
They argue that any effort to resolve the conflict should include the imminent prospect of political negotiations over the fundamental disputes between Israelis and Palestinians.
Hostility to the United States in the Russian establishment remains strong and is fueled by the imminent prospect of NATO's expanding to include the Baltic states.
Faced with the imminent prospect of AIG going bust, the Federal Reserve hurriedly stumped up $85bn in return for an 85% stake in the company.
The imminent prospect of a 33rd cap is as sweet as any of the previous 32, as the 28-year-old freely admits.
