(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.
Inexorable
Definition:
(a.) Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge.
Example Sentences:
(1) This condition is a genodermatosis, seen chiefly around the shores of the Mediterranean, characterised by early pigment disturbances which progress virtually inexorably towards a diffuse epitheliomatosis which usually results in death before the age of 20 years.
(2) Or will it slip inexorably into the unchartered waters of default and economic catastrophe?
(3) At this stage, however, the allure of big money Super Pacs has been much stronger on the GOP side, although their ineffectiveness in slowing Trump’s inexorable rise has spawned grousing and finger pointing.
(4) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
(5) It appears that once a dose of asbestos sufficient to initiate the disease has been retained it is inexorably progressive.
(6) This was the logic that initially led the coalition to reject Heathrow expansion, so why is it now, indulged if not quite supported by the opposition, drifting inexorably towards a new runway in the south-east?
(7) And after all the waiting, the killing and the tears, the wheel of history turned inexorably, and all who watched knew it would never turn back.
(8) But imagine that the victim of an industrial accident with a paralyzed hand could achieve new levels of function by inducing axonal regrowth through a synthetic nerve guidance channel; or that a Parkinsonian patient's symptoms could be relieved by implanting in his brain neural tissue encased in a selectively permeable polymer envelope; or that the inexorable progression of the vascular complications of juvenile diabetes could be stopped, even reversed, by a membrane-protected xenograft of insulin-producing tissue.
(9) Throughout the inexorable evolution of the disease, the psychiatrist has to pay attention to the global situation: medical, social and legal.
(10) And some of the more massive trends heading into the future – the inexorables of population growth and global warming, emergent economies and regions with their own claims to truth and justice – would seem largely resistant to the glittering technical fixes that future-types of the past have put their faith in.
(11) And hurt a number of people.” There is a pause, during which one feels Franzen leaning inexorably, and rather endearingly, in a direction that can do him no good.
(12) Even the seemingly inexorable rise of digital media has not emerged unscathed from the downturn.
(13) Was justice itself falling prey to the menacing mood of rightwing fanaticism that has pervaded the country with the inexorable rise of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn?
(14) The left’s weakness has been its belief that there is an inexorable direction to history, that triumph is preordained All of which means that the party’s conference in Brighton in September must be a rigorous campaign launch rather than a carnival of celebration.
(15) It was Tesco's seeming ability to act with impunity that fuelled Simms' determination to write a book exposing how the inexorable rise of supermarkets is bad for everyone - from poorly paid workers in the field, to small, independent shops fast going out of business, to the over-exploited natural environment.
(16) We conclude that bone marrow transplantation can potentially save patients with advanced thalassemia from an otherwise inexorable progression to death from the complications of blood transfusions.
(17) While led by private investment, government often encouraged the process with schemes such as the popular home improvement grants of the 1960s and 70s, hoping to slow what seemed at the time the inexorable decline of the inner cities.
(18) To the dismay of inexperienced politicians in his left-dominated coalition, creditors have dug in their heels with cash reserves drying up inexorably as negotiations over a deal to unlock further bailout funds have gone to the wire.
(19) Nevertheless, perception is key and more and more South Africans view the ANC's glass as half-empty: a jaded organisation tarnished by corruption, delivering too little too slowly and in inexorable decline.
(20) One sees ageing as an inexorable process of decline, and old people as purely a burden, a drain on resources.