Sentence examples for then imminent from inspiring English sources

Compared with last year's fireworks, when Michael Moore led the charge against the then imminent war in Iraq, this year's ceremony was an exercise in group self-congratulation.

Early in 2003, this paper asked a group of people from the arts to say what they thought about the then imminent invasion of Iraq.

And then, imminent global apocalypse aside, we can quietly give thanks to the Russians for ensuring, whatever their true motives, that a murky subject is being dragged closer to the light of proper scrutiny.

Mrs Graham went ahead with the publication of the "Pentagon Papers", although an adverse legal ruling could have derailed the company's then imminent public offering of $35m in stock and jeopardised the company's licences for its two Florida television stations, then worth about $100m.

In May, after the government disclosed that it had failed to turn over hundreds of documents to defense lawyers both for Mr. Nichols and for Timothy J. McVeigh, whose execution was then imminent, Mr. Nichols asked the justices to reopen his case in a petition for rehearing, Nichols v. United States, No. 00-8900.

At a meeting of top police and security officials here, he said that the September bombings had been tied to what was then imminent Russian victory over the rebels in Dagestan, and that with the fighting in Chechnya nearing an end, Russia could expect more terrorism.

A paper entitled "the Mayan Doomsday's effect on survival outcomes in clinical trials" considered how research might be affected by our then-imminent extinction.

When I remarked that President Hu Jintao's then-imminent visit with President Bush was very likely an exercise in futility, he said, "These politicians are mostly a waste of time".

Kramer criticized the FDA's speeded-up trials of AZT and plans for the drug's then-imminent approval.

Not long after joining the zoo, Dr. Kleiman became involved in the plight of the golden lion tamarin, a Brazilian monkey with an old man's face and a mane of auburn hair, which was then in imminent danger of extinction.

He completed the roof of St George's Chapel, and set about converting the older eastern Lady Chapel into a proposed shrine to Henry VI, whose canonisation was then considered imminent.