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  • Invasion seemed inevitable and imminent, both to the POWs and to the Japanese.†  (source)
  • Dad moved on from World War II to the United Nations, the European Union, and the imminent destruction of the world.†  (source)
  • The big announcement had to do with Richard's political career, not yet formally begun but considered imminent.†  (source)
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  • If we attacked that ship, the Adventists could erase all the messages when they realized that loss was imminent.†  (source)
  • Dear Mrs. O'Brien, Inasmuch as you have not succumbed to the imminence of litigation in our previous epistle be advised that we are in consultation with our barrister above in Dublin.†  (source)
  • I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death.†  (source)
  • The young Pawnee rolled his eye over the place, as if he were examining the terrific danger from which he had just escaped, but he disdained to betray the smallest emotion, at its imminency.†  (source)
  • The US military was still jacked up on DEFCON 2, a condition signalling the razor edge of imminent attack, but attack from where and by whom was an open question.†  (source)
  • Everything in it points to the imminence of their parting, three times using the word "brink," which suggests how close to the edge of something these two lovers are.†  (source)
  • One day they were going in imminently; next day they'd hear that they were holding off.†  (source)
  • In the mean time the sudden appearance, and the imminency of the danger, quickened the blood in the veins of Paul and Middleton, more than all their laborious frictions, and physical expedients.†  (source)
  • He struggles most in numbering the elderly women, who seem to be the walking dead: vacant eyes, perhaps aware of their imminent fate.†  (source)
  • The imminence of her leaving made him press his feet hard against the ground.†  (source)
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