What's the difference between coming and imminent?

Coming


Definition:

  • (p. pr & vb. n.) of Come
  • (a.) Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.
  • (a.) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
  • (n.) Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.
  • (n.) Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
  • (2) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (3) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (4) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
  • (5) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
  • (6) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (7) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (8) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (9) That's why the big dreams have come from the smaller candidates such as the radical left's Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
  • (10) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
  • (11) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
  • (12) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (13) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (14) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
  • (15) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
  • (16) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
  • (17) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (18) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
  • (19) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (20) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.

Imminent


Definition:

  • (a.) Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.
  • (a.) Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.
  • (a.) (With upon) Bent upon; attentive to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As collapse was imminent, MAP increased but CO and TPR did not change significantly.
  • (2) A few years later, I marched in protest at the imminent invasion of Iraq and felt the same exhilaration at being part of a collective.
  • (3) That assessment was echoed by senior administration officials briefing reporters separately on Tuesday, who emphasised that, by contrast, they do not see an imminent domestic threat to the US from Isis.
  • (4) If Microsoft partnered with a major local brand it could help drive Windows Phone momentum but, with the Nokia takeover imminent, this does not look likely to happen anytime soon.
  • (5) "The feeling is that it is not imminent," said one senior media buying agency executive.
  • (6) Labour respects the result of the referendum and the will of the British people and will not frustrate the process for invoking article 50,” said Jeremy Corbyn in a statement that swiftly closed off any meaningful likelihood of enough MPs opposing the government’s imminent Brexit bill.
  • (7) Virgin Trains, which looked set for imminent extinction, is now confident it will be allowed to run the west coast service in the interim, and Branson said he hoped a new, transparent process would mean his company could also soon target the east coast line again .
  • (8) Here, we give our verdict on 10 new towers, built and imminent, counting down to the very worst offender … 10.
  • (9) Further, he suggests that there are theoretical reasons why one could expect that one set of circumstances--those which typically apply in the short-term emergency commitment of mentally ill persons predicted to be imminently violent--may be exempt from the systematic inaccuracy found in the current research.
  • (10) The inspector general had no obligation to inform the White House until publication of the audit was imminent, Carney said, adding that the White House had been told in April.
  • (11) In 4 patients leukemia developed within 2-4 months from the diagnosis ('imminent leukemia'), in 13 patients leukemia or smouldering leukemia developed between 4 and 25 months after the diagnosis ('true preleukemia').
  • (12) Does the recent fall in the unemployment rate to 7.6% in the third quarter of 2013, faster than the Bank's earlier forecasts, means an interest rate rise is more imminent than we though?
  • (13) Athens was unravelling into chaos, unable to form a government and forced into fresh elections , plunging the markets into freefall as Europe's leaders abandoned any pretence that a Greek exit from the euro might not be imminent.
  • (14) Veterans of the last Heathrow protests are drawing up plans for imminent action after claims that the Airports Commission will recommend additional runways at Britain's biggest airport.
  • (15) The fluctuations of these marker levels in patients with recurrent tumors reflects the progress of the disease, with a sudden elevation in values indicating imminent death.
  • (16) The word ‘planning’ [used in the PM’s statement] suggests it’s not imminent; the word ‘directing’, however, suggests it might have been.
  • (17) 12.01pm GMT Egypt solution 'imminent' The Egyptian justice minister, Ahmed Mekki, says a resolution is imminent to the political crisis stemming from the president's move to give himself sweeping new powers.
  • (18) The Wellcome Trust announced it was funding the first human trials of a third vaccine , to start imminently, so that it can be tested in health workers and burial teams in west Africa in December, alongside two others.
  • (19) Since an understanding of the pathogenesis of essential hypertension is unlikely to be imminent, there is little chance that antihypertensive therapy will become curative in the near future.
  • (20) Halifa Sallah, the spokesman for Barrow’s coalition, said he expected Jammeh to change his defiant position when he saw that the military were no longer with him, which he thought would happen imminently.