In the days of the old sailing frigates, this was the announcement of an impending attack! |
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He spoke of the impending death of free-to-air television as it operated an outdated business model. |
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Fear is emotion, pain, uneasiness, anxiety, caused by the sense of impending danger. |
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People's concerns over the summer were dominated less by impending elections than by electricity bills. |
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The latter nation-view tends to incite feelings of unescapable impending doom, a resurgence of the old Cold-War nuclear Armageddon panics. |
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He was unexcited by the subject of the novel, and was in any case preoccupied with his impending departure for America. |
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Chandler's words crackle and dance, amusing us while instilling a sense of impending doom. |
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Normal hail grows up as a drop of rain and is chosen to be frozen and sent to Earth as an envoy of impending nasty winter weather. |
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Champagne glasses in hand, they announced that they had negotiated a settlement to the impending crisis. |
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Who hasn't broken an impending fall with an outstretched hand, which can jar the bones of the elbow out of place? |
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Among the Shoshones and Utes, twins were sometimes looked upon as a sign of impending bad luck. |
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My father ended up with my brother, sister Fifi and the impending new addition. |
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Couples will also be able to post notice of their impending marriage anywhere in the country, rather than in the area where they live. |
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In one condition the cues were arrows presented in the centre of a visual display, indicating the likely location of an impending target object. |
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Additional expenditure has been incurred as the bank prepares for impending regulatory changes. |
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Some customers locally have been given notice of the impending closure, but not all houses appear to have been circularised as yet. |
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The warnings of an impending eruption came from vulcanology experts on the island, based on evidence of increased volcanic activity. |
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People who are my age are growing up with impending problems, such as major environmental instabilities and global warming. |
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There's the dashing hero, a former pilot stricken with impending blindness who stoically refuses to be pitied. |
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Seemingly in preparation for my impending stag night, my brother has today been out and purchased some traffic cones. |
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Although there are many rascals to be thrown out, we can only deal with impending apocalypse by changing ourselves and our piggish habits. |
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It is not standard practice in an ordinary domestic context to warn a person of his impending arrest. |
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By combining a hodgepodge of miscellaneous claims with no apparent context, the author has created a scary image of impending doom. |
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He writes a letter of accusation, ominously hinting at his own impending death. |
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The storm's impending landfall has sent millions of people inland to escape fierce winds and a deadly storm surge. |
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I think people enjoy that frenzied panic of preparing for impending danger. |
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In assessing Glasgow Rugby's impending season, none of the imports is nearly as important as one home-bred Scot. |
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In your May Letters pages, Des Lambert wrote of the Cornish use of the word directly to convey an impending event. |
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Sisters Lorna Owen and Kristy Sturgeon were out to have a great hen night to celebrate Lorna's impending nuptials. |
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Pregnancy is not an absolute contraindication to travel unless complicated by an unstable medical condition or impending labor. |
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Treetops danced back and forth in the sky as the wind picked up in intensity, a sure sign of an impending storm. |
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A loud ching interrupted Jake's thoughts as he turned back towards the impending battle. |
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At that point in time, the impending smoking ban and the effect it would have on drink sales were high on the agenda. |
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Pain or apprehension about the feeling of impending subluxation or dislocation indicates anterior glenohumeral instability. |
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No, they had a fearless leader screaming at them about fear and impending doom. |
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Then she becomes pregnant and breaks the news of impending fatherhood to her boyfriend. |
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Of the three really huge catastrophes impending in the next century, it seems improbable that we can avoid more than one or two. |
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At time of going to press a resolution had not been found, and strike action was impending. |
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During his stay Jan worked with his brothers Tim and Ben to help them come to terms with Sam's impending death. |
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The light was difficult now with sunset impending, and his vision was untrustworthy. |
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One suggestion is that they are trying to warn us about impending ecological disaster on Earth. |
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With Valentine's Day looming, the impending nuptials of our banks should be drawing to a conclusion. |
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It is not just rumours and a palpable sense of impending danger that throw people off balance. |
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Agricultural authorities, it appears, are deaf to the pleas of farmers desperate to forestall an impending disaster. |
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Just spent the weekend in Edinburgh to celebrate a friend's impending nuptials, and a good time was had by all. |
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Clearly, this was a guy, with all the impending pressures, he wanted out of that marriage. |
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The UN failed to respond to impending massacres despite forewarnings in all three cases. |
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The woman standing next to me applied makeup from a compact, oblivious to our impending doom. |
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Countless Jeremiahs have denounced the impending death of the book at the hands of new forms of media. |
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But the region's weathermen say predictions of impending blizzard conditions are wide of the mark. |
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In the capital, people celebrated their impending nationhood after decades of struggle and strife. |
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As their wedding day approached, she became very nervous about her impending deflowering. |
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Nat Turner's rebellion radicalized opponents of slavery and provided a preview of the impending sectional crisis. |
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Surveillance of mosquitoes, sentinel birds, and dead birds for West Nile virus in America warned of this summer's impending outbreak. |
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Ethiopian officials warned yesterday of an impending tragedy in the drought-stricken Afar region. |
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Your sense of impending doom is heightened when one reports that his efforts to extract cash from an automated teller machine were fruitless. |
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I didn't listen then, because I was a rumble of thunder, transformed into a reasonless creature by impending loss. |
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He won, because impending commitments of air power in Europe took precedence. |
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These hormones are manufactured in response to an impending threat or danger to the body or mind. |
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It says Ford is demanding 30 percent price reductions in light of the impending free trade agreement with China. |
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On 1 November 1944, the impending formation of a united provisional government and of a regency was announced in liberated Belgrade. |
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And that is before some impending high-profile closures cause even bigger problems. |
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That's why this summer's big drop in the market was taken by many as a sign of an impending double dip. |
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The scared young man reluctantly took the note home to his mother, dreading the impending punishment. |
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As rumours of the impending rising grew stronger the Government ordered John Derenzy to form a party of yeomen in the area. |
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He promises to repay the robbed travellers, and undertakes to obtain Sir John a place in the King's army during the impending civil war. |
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Since the real world is more frightening than the void, thoughts turn to impending doom, death and suicide. |
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Three years later, waiting on their impending divorce proceeding, the estranged couple wondered what went wrong. |
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The crew were always spared the task so they could save energy for the impending rescue. |
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But it wasn't the leaden grey of impending rain, nor was it the hazy grey of fog. |
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So the prophets are split neatly between impending economic doom and postponed blight. |
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He used that dog-tired phrase about a half-dozen times during today's press conference as he defended his impending immigration plan. |
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I am a bit like an excited bride, thrilled at the prospect of her impending wedding. |
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Many rikishi have lost their impending contest because they were thinking about their bout the next day. |
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Gun buying may be a response to an exaggerated amount of coverage of supposedly impending danger. |
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No-one would suggest, of course, that this sudden conversion on the road to Damascus has anything to do with the impending elections. |
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He can see an impending economic Armageddon and is doing his best to make the world change its ill ways. |
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These three impending directives will have serious consequences for all employers. |
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She pauses a moment, partially entranced before breaking the impending spell. |
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The worst thing that the civilised world lost sleep over was the impending Millennium. |
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Still, he had no other family and impending death tends to make men wish to confess. |
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The new station hit the Rwandan airwaves in 1993, and from the start provided a soundtrack for an impending conflict. |
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The burden of life and impending death is dragging me back down to the luxury of loneliness. |
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Ever more dire warnings of impending atrocities were appearing in the press from ' behind the scenes' sources. |
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Many women experience an aura, which signals an impending hot flash immediately prior to its onset. |
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The second chugs slowly and noisily between Glasgow and Edinburgh with that inevitable air of impending tattiness. |
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They also went on a babymoon to Jane Mountain in St. Lucia in June in preparation for their impending parenthood. |
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With a credulous press printing daily scare stories of impending health care chaos, the administration scaled back its bold plan. |
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He has been teething for about three weeks now, with no sign of the impending teeth. |
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The grey-haired presenter only found out about his impending nuptials when he received a demand for payment for the flowers and catering. |
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But such generalizations are detriments to the impending debate because they obscure what really matters. |
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First of all, there was the Prime Minister's impending knee operation in Mumbai that scored newsprint by the score. |
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They walked through the shadow of the gorge, the steep overhanging walls closed in on them, and there was a sense of impending evil about them. |
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The authors of the essays in this book offer great insight into the issues surrounding terminal illness and impending death. |
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It seems we had lost the feeling for impending danger that's necessary to avert disaster. |
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Desalination is for many hopefuls at least one technological solution to the impending crisis. |
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As in a disaster movie, the lives are depicted as parallel narratives, hinged on the impending disaster. |
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She said she did not think the impending war had changed soldiers' minds about entering the state of matrimony. |
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Another complication comes from impending legal action over drug patents facing both companies. |
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While his guitar used to sound like an impending revolution, his talents now seem comparable to any average American rock string thrasher. |
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But the breathtaking scenery and impending risk of thunderclouds and lightning kept us spinning. |
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Its Chief Executive illegally sold shares when in possession of privileged information about an impending price crash. |
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My strong gut feeling is that she wants you to break up with her, or she wants to prepare you for impending breakup. |
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Sensing an impending emergency, he went to his headquarters on Merdeka Square, just beside the Jakarta garrison. |
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Gary Dale, needless to say, has Frank's unqualified endorsement for the impending electoral tilt. |
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Despite all this, I'm actually feeling rather positive about the impending arrival. |
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But mention the impending transfer deadline and the banalities are overwhelmed by his sense of urgency. |
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We notice that we have now drawn attention to the album's impending arrival. |
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Yet I was lost in the haze of the impending battle, my eyes fazed and bedazzled by the brilliant flash of swords and cutlasses. |
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The pregnant person scrutinizes every bellyache and back twinge to see if it's a sign of the impending big event. |
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The point is that each of us has something we do to keep our minds off school, exams and the impending midterms. |
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An impending skills shortage in the trades means jobs are opening up to women. |
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United's possible bid for Inter defender Blanc could hit a stumbling block with the impending closure of the Serie A transfer window. |
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That night they stopped and made camp just before the impending darkness fell over them for the night. |
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And I'm starting to hear the steady tread of a group of footsteps, heavy and full of impending danger. |
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He hints darkly at the impending murder of Banquo and Fleance but does not confide that he has already commissioned it. |
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He had no doubt that he would be unaffected by the forces, but Anna was obviously nervous about the impending blast-off. |
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I had settled down during Mum's gossip but I now feel a twitch of impending doom. |
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Foreign businessmen and tourists who delight in the country's sylvan charm and uncrowded cities need not fear impending overdevelopment. |
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After a break of many years, I find myself in the situation called impending fatherhood. |
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Rather than warning relatives of impending doom, hornbills might be calling to predators to make it clear that the game is up. |
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As we have seen, Indonesian politics during most of the 1990s was a waiting game, with the impending presidential succession increasingly dominating the country's political life. |
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Scientific progress such as this is why apocalyptic cranks like myself run around unkemptly with a hand lettered sign warning of the impending end of the world. |
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These images also act as a presage of impending catastrophe. |
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The 40-year-old charmed star met with E.L. James recently, sparking rumors of an impending casting announcement. |
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I was forced to compact a six-shelf collection of boxes for my impending move and my collection would take up a lot less weight and room if this was implemented sooner. |
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The dashing hero is a former pilot stricken with impending blindness. |
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In a statement issued here, the DUTA executive has announced that while it will call off the impending agitation, it will maintain a strict watch over the developments. |
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Told in a dream of his impending return home, he made his way to the coast and joined a merchant ship, facing many dangers before rejoining his family. |
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He made no calls to inform the congregation of his impending lateness. |
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A brief postcard introducing the goals and impending arrival of the survey was mailed to the 2743 members of the mailing list in the target ZIP code. |
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When his mistress read of the impending marriage in a newspaper, she accepted her fate with equanimity. |
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Mitchelstown was rife with rumours yesterday of an impending announcement. |
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I arrived at the appointed place with a growing sense of impending doom. |
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For more than a month, employees at the stately home had denied all knowledge of an impending wedding, rubbishing local rumours that the island would host the occasion. |
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The same thing happens when her mute daughter, the sweet Kattrin, is shot as she tries to warn a hamlet of impending slaughter. |
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Then with a casual twist she pirouetted and now bows-on to the scene of impending carnage, quietly, almost innocently, began to gather way once more. |
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The convergence of the irreverent prince of potty humor and the cringe-worthy captain of schlock must be one of the signs of the impending Apocalypse. |
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By now everyone was aware of their impending doom and chaos was starting to break out, but through it all many people came to terms with their fate and accepted it. |
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On several occasions, Pakistani officials tipped off Maulvi Nazir and his men about impending drone strikes. |
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The play, set in 1982, depicts the struggles of three privileged slackers to come to terms with impending adulthood. |
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But the Corinthian women's thunderstruck responses to their sister's havoc is an element integral to the play, a brake which slows and accentuates the impending tragedy. |
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You may have experienced that uncanny feeling of impending success. |
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These moves were designed to help us use our minds to overcome the physical pain of impending childbirth, and created a sense of accomplishment at the end of class. |
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We don't mistake it as a sign from God of an impending calamity. |
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The groom may say he doesn't want to get blotto, but once he's having a good time and you get about 3 pitchers in him, he's not going to care about the impending morning doom. |
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Owners might appreciate a service plan that has a chip e-mail them when it senses their mowers need maintenance, to head off an impending breakdown. |
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As an advocate for hard times and the impending global apocalypse, I'm disappointed whenever a potential murderous despot loses his insane grip on the world. |
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While a CPR-certified physical therapist administered first aid backstage, the new lead couple quickly discussed their impending unrehearsed performance. |
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Instead, he had buckled up tight and prayed that the air bag worked, screaming at the top of his lungs as he sped towards the impending collision. |
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An alert of impending rough air would give pilots time to warn passengers and flight attendants to buckle up and take steps to reduce turbulence effects. |
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Are you all feeling a sense of impending doom by any chance? |
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If you're able to endure this feeling of impending doom, however, there's a good chance you'll be rewarded at the end with a tiny nugget of hope and almost-joy. |
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For eight centuries they have been the heralds of spring, as sure a sign of impending blue skies and falling blossom as the song of swallows and the appearance of tulips. |
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Can we take the recent bargain sale of hard-bound editions at hugely reduced rates as a signal heralding the impending tempest befalling the book market? |
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Better communication, says the senior superintendent of police, can warn authorities of any impending danger, so they can evacuate thousands under threat. |
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Cheered by her friendliness, I forgot about the chill wind and my impending rendezvous with a sleeping bag on a cold, hard floor in a council flat. |
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Most rewarding are seemingly unrelated stories, like Toby's impending fatherhood, that end up having a poignant payoff within the cliffhanger ending of the season. |
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Headlines in the press constantly warn of impending asteroid collisions. |
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It was the work of a schoolgirl, then 13, who was so moved by the impending departure of the town's favourite son that she committed her thoughts to verse. |
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The impending fiscal cliff dominates the postelection agenda. |
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We reflect on my impending visit to the pokey over a fry-up. |
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The now ex-king heard rumours of the impending showdown and when the group arrived had them arrested, ordered they be flayed alive and flogged to death. |
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Smith introduces these more sombre notes with real assurance, deftly counterpoising the impending death with the day-to-day concerns and anxieties. |
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The announcement of the impending courts martial, with at least seven army personnel facing war crimes charges, led to an outcry by senior military figures. |
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Its been a good few weeks since I last freaked out over the impending apocalypse, and I figured that watching this would get me sufficiently paranoid for the next month or so. |
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But, most importantly, remember that a vague sense of nausea with an. uncomfortable fullness in your neck and throat may be your only warning of an impending heart attack. |
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The rules of judicial ethics preclude him from commenting publicly on pending or impending litigation or participating in politics, as by endorsing candidates. |
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With such a network in place, it should be possible to detect precursory displacements and to provide a timely warning of any impending landslide. |
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It is also believed to be positioning itself for the impending relaxation of Australia's prohibitive cross-ownership rules, which would allow it to enhance its presence there. |
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These consequences have yet to be understood by most physicians, not to mention the public, the media or arguably even the promulgators of this impending disaster. |
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He loved being wound up, made the impending victory all the more glorious. |
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The grumblings, however, may be less an indication of an impending military revolt than the last feeble lashing out of those weaned on the old ways. |
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As well as his impending appearance on BBC television he will also be guesting on BBC Radio Ulster for a week, presenting one of their regular music and chat shows. |
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For those fundamentalists in the 70s, the impending end times meant a necessary withdrawal from society in specific ways, not an increased involvement. |
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When my wife and I went in for the requisite premarital investigation, the pastor asked each of us if we realized that our impending marriage was dissoluble only upon death. |
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Other reports have cited severe and uncontrollable pain or bleeding, major injury with shock, impending birth, and uncontrollable mental disturbance. |
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Why are they looking at me as if this dream spells impending doom? |
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I have to work today with this feeling of impending doom hanging over me. |
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Lightfix clinical trial for the treatment of impending and pathologic fractures in the humerus due to metastatic carcinoma. |
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The letter warned of an impending shutoff if payment was not made promptly. |
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Ruth stares out of her office window, across the courtyard towards the artificial lake, and thinks about the impending trip to the sea light. |
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In the fifth vassana, the Buddha was staying at Mahavana near Vesali when he heard news of the impending death of his father. |
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At Christmas, she was feverish, and lay unconscious for hours, which led to rumours of her impending death. |
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Owing to the impending contraction of the Army after the war, a regular commission in the Grenadiers was out of the question. |
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Howe had failed to alert his troops there, despite being aware of the impending attack the previous day. |
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In 1551 the tsar sent his envoy to the Nogai Horde and they promised to maintain neutrality during the impending war. |
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Jones levelled similar accusations against the BBC after they disclosed the impending British attack on Goose Green by 2 Para. |
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Schiff regularly appeared on television in the years before the crisis and warned of the impending real estate collapse. |
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Since 22 June 1485 Richard had been aware of Henry's impending invasion, and had ordered his lords to maintain a high level of readiness. |
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I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline. |
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Curiosity could pose a personal threat, as it could originate from the impending purges of Fascists. |
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So Melanie hightails it back to the state in the film's title to tell her parents of her impending marriage and get Jake's autograph. |
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News of Germany's impending military defeat spread throughout the German armed forces. |
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Early manifestations of impending anaphylaxis include hives and itching, flushing, wheezing, hoarseness, and swelling of the hands and feet. |
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Like real volcanologists, Dalton and his colleagues take measurements that often signal an impending eruption. |
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He said storm drains could not be welded shut as it is necessary for them to be open during the impending rainy season. |
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The bloodbath temporarily abates for brotherly banter inside the claustrophobic tank, but the air is always chokingly thick with impending doom. |
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Certainly his clothes support this notion of impending takeover. |
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The impending reality of his younger sister's baby means Boni has only so much time for masturbatory fantasies. |
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The safety lamp, which detected toxic methane gas in mines, was crucial in warning miners of impending danger. |
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The East India Company was nevertheless able to use the remaining intact lines to warn many outposts of impending disturbances. |
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To avert the impending doom, Cordelia tells the Axeman that Fiona loves only person, herself. |
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Anisocoria is an alarming sign and may indicate an impending life-threatening neurological emergency. |
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In a state when concurrent force system disequilibrium was impending the angle of repose was measured. |
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The inhabitants of the old province of Dacia displayed no awareness of impending dissolution. |
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Notified of Philip's impending approach with 2,000 knights, he turned around and headed back to Flanders. |
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Their strength and ferocity coincided with the impending trade growth of the maritime silk and spice routes. |
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In 1930, with his impending marriage in mind, Olivier earned some extra money with small roles in two films. |
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This depicted, all too accurately, the impending World War, with cities being destroyed by aerial bombs. |
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By then, ambassadors from some of the British states, warned by merchants of the impending invasion, had arrived promising their submission. |
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However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives. |
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In gratitude, he decided to stay on along the cliff, probably to help warn the locals of the impending pirate attack if they were to return. |
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What makes this and each impending upswing stand out is the increasingly finite amount of developable land. |
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Scott of the Manchester Guardian that Britain would keep out of the impending war. |
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A final decision on the plan was delayed because of the impending return of Mary, Queen of Scots. |
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The comment about my impending corpsehood had been all the encouragement I'd needded. |
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Given the process of marginalization combined with the trend of migration to urban areas and to the United States, some linguists are warning of impending language death. |
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Because of the destruction of the Roman force at Arausio and the pressure of the impending crisis, Marius was now given the latitude to construct a new army on his own terms. |
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While residents were aware of the impending shut-offs last summer, complaints were later made over the selection process used in determining which ones to turn off. |
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Two days later, Enigma showed that Ciliax had joined Scharnhorst and with the recent exercises, led the Admiralty to predict an impending departure. |
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Depending on the terrain the locomotive was being used in the whistle could be designed for long distance warning of impending arrival, or more for localised use. |
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Meningism, commonly associated with the meningeal irritation of meningitis, may be mistaken for neck stiffness associated with impending tonsillar herniation. |
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The patient was treated for impending Addisonian crisis and has remained well on thyroid and adrenal replacement therapy with regular monitoring for associated conditions. |
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Nonetheless, word of the impending assault reached sailors at Kiel. |
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However, there are some warning signs of an impending tsunami, and automated systems can provide warnings immediately after an earthquake in time to save lives. |
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False rumours of an impending Irish army attack on London circulated in the capital, and a mob of over 100,000 assembled ready to defend the city. |
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The impending ban on the utilization of incandescent bulbs in most of the Latin American nations will considerably boost the LED and florescent lighting market. |
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However, FLEWS is not intended to prevent an impending flood event. |
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Pelosi tried to warn her colleagues of the impending ecocatastrophe. |
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The laundresses had teased her by suggesting she'll receive the ring baked into the Halloween barmbrack she serves at tea, a traditional omen of impending nuptials. |
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Balzac would have done well here, but I was more indulgent, thinking of things like the impending death of the bourgeoisie, and of pasts these fiftyish people all bore inside. |
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The MAIB report makes it clear that the harbour controllers were informed of impending disaster by shore observers before the crew were themselves aware. |
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In the spring of 1296, Andrew Moray, together with his father and uncle, joined the Scottish feudal host assembling in preparation for the impending conflict. |
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Bernard Weatherill had announced his impending retirement a long time before the 1992 general election, leading to a long but suppressed campaign for support. |
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