Bradley A. Smith

Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.

American Public Servant

Marianne Williamson

In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was when he predicted hand-to-hand combat in Baghdad. I remember Candy Crowley, and other reporters as well, treating his views on the impending war as ridiculous, out there, almost insane.

American Author

Robert Dale Owen

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Scottish Politician

Hamza Yusuf

My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

American Clergyman

Florence Welch

I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

English Musician

Christy Turlington

Like so many new moms, I felt anxiety over the impending birth of my daughter. However, most of the anxiety I felt was around the idea of raising a child. I wasn't focused on potential risks to my health or hers that could occur during the actual birth.

American Model

Dinesh Paliwal

Leaders have to be intensely aware and be bold and flexible enough to adjust course ahead of impending changes.

Indian Businessman

John Burns

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

English Activist

David Price

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

American Politician

Alfre Woodard

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

American Actress

Refers to events that will happen very soon, not in a distant future.

Duration until Event

Often used for events that are unwanted or cause worry, although not exclusively.

Negative Events

Suggests that the event cannot be stopped or changed.

Unavoidable

Can be used in a neutral context, without implying good or bad.

Neutral Contexts

The word can create a sense of urgency or tension about the future.

Increased Tension

Enhances the time-critical nature of the upcoming event.

Time Sensitivity

Carries a connotation of danger, harm, or negative outcomes.

Sense of Threat

Often accompanies situations that make people anxious or fearful.

Emotional Weight

The threat or event may not be immediately apparent.

Not Always Visible

 depriving Andrea of her rights to equal protection under the law. However, while one of the three judges overseeing the case voted to spare Andrea, the other two did not. Records suggests it’s possible Andrea escaped the impending surgery, but many more victims of these policies did not. Although eugenics acquired negative connotations

The movement that...

 Leo, very sad about this impending break up, does a little more research about the hurricane and discovers that in its path across the Atlantic, it will pass over a long-dormant, though now active volcano that will spew toxic ash into its eye that will presumably be whipped into some sort of chemical weapon that will destroy the world.

How I accidentally...

 is that there's an impending cut-out-the-middle-man disintermediation, that's going to be happening in the publishing industry. And it's going to reach a crescendo over the next few years, and I think that it's for our benefit, really, and for the world's benefit. OK, so what are the enablers?

Richard Baraniuk on...

 you remain mobile because a good virus wants you to stay mobile long enough to spread yourself to other people so I tried to address each of these issues in the book as I told the story of essentially the impending end of the world so it in your now you work at the

Dr. Zombie Explains...Zom...

 By monitoring the friends group, we could get 16 days advance warning of an impending epidemic in this human population. Now, in addition to that, if you were an analyst who was trying to study an epidemic or to predict the adoption of a product, for example,

Nicholas Christakis: How...

 the at-risk patient could be warned of an impending cardiac arrest and that he or she needs immediate medical attention. Although the device may not be able to provide the patient with the complete analysis of the cardiac injury, it might be of immense help

A life-saving device...

 not a perfect system, not by a long shot, but at least a system that was less likely to totally collapse under impending pressures like further development and drought. So I was looking at the world through this lens

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 of his dog team having spent years rebuilding his livelihood it's critical for Andy to take every precaution against the impending breakup in order to protect his home and the lives of himself and his sled dogs

Preparing for Breakup PIPE...

 money to do that today's cities need a new plan we need to build new types of systems designed for the modern urban world of rapid urbanization and impending water scarcity and that's where I have good news

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 tremors in the floors on the first side of impending departure and finally 12 hours after emerging as an infant below the surface of the pond the flight muscles burst into life and the

Impending