(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.
Ineluctable
Definition:
(a.) Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is an ineluctable consequence of improving the computer models of climate change.
(2) And in this ineluctable journey, we must wish the "quiet man" godspeed.
(3) Based on a review of 13 personal cases an attempt is made to isolate a specific laryngeal lesion: extensive papilloma durum of larynx of almost ineluctable malignant transformation.
(4) So you have an ineluctable tendency for regulators to regulate more and more, and for banks to get bigger and bigger.
(5) A Rip Van Winkle from 1979 would be astonished that earnings have all but evaporated from British politics, as if pay were as ineluctable as the weather.
(6) We can also make a number of other forecasts based on those, and other ineluctable realities about the cost of components in computing.
(7) It is the author's conclusion that these and other related formulations lead ineluctably to a concept of mental structure that necessarily incorporates elements of both "deficit" and "drive-defense" models and the paper that follows attempts to develop and explicate that conclusion by means of a detailed examination of relevant parts of Fairbairn's writings.
(8) This idea has penetrated deep into the collective consciousness: the idea that poverty is somehow inevitable, ineluctable, a given condition for a significant proportion of humanity.
(9) When you sit at the center of the world and are unlikely to ever lack for the basic materials of self-sufficiency, the idea of blind, gnawing resentment – let alone of feeding that resentment even with irrational aims – is ineluctably beyond your ken.
(10) Replacement of living poliomyelitis vaccine by inactivated one is ineluctable as complications though exceptional will become less and less accepted, and the surveillance of poliovirus circulation will be facilitated.
(11) The rapid rise of the life sciences cannot continue its present course into the twenty-first century without meeting ineluctable limits to expansion.
(12) These changes are perhaps not ineluctably associated with aging; they might result from pathological processes that have gone unnoticed.
(13) The excision necessary for reasons of comfort and hygiene could not be envisaged unless the ineluctable vast palatine breach opened could be immediately repaired by surgery, any prosthetic solution being excluded.
(14) It's a problem that affects at least half-a-dozen European nations and is most obvious in the European Union itself, yet I wonder if this seemingly ineluctable estrangement really has to go all the way in Britain.
(15) Greece, ineluctably, is being drawn into a new dance of uncertainty, a rollercoaster ride of high-pressure politics.
(16) Thus, genetic determinism is no longer ineluctable.
(17) The close and ineluctable links between anatomy and physical anthropology are explored.
(18) The author suggests ways of theorizing, and eventually interpreting, the 'breach' in the relationship in terms of the absent, decentred subject, the Desire of the Other, the inherent contingency of our most primitive identifications, and the ineluctable violence and alienation of human interdependency.
(19) Whatever one's view of Apple as a manufacturer of digital equipment, as an author of operating systems and designer of software, as a multinational corporation, as a lifestyle statement or as a quasi-religious cult, it remains a matter of ineluctable fact that the introduction of the iPhone just over a year ago changed the smartphone market for ever.
(20) Quite how put out you are by that ineluctable truth is a matter of personal taste.