0 If an event impends, usually an event that is unpleasant or unwanted, it is going to happen soon:
A crisis of huge proportions impends in the area.
Ultimately, it was simply a sign of sheer decay and of impending death - though it could herald eternal glory.
And the dislocated and fragmented vocal lines, along with the relentlessness of the drum track, signal her impending breakdown.
Operant conditioning and learning can also act on these thresholds giving anticipatory distress faces both to impending stimuli and to painful thoughts.
The news of her impending death led to the gathering of her children, who confer red about the possible course of action.
They measure the pressure on international reserves which could arise from market expectations about impending currency changes.
My father-in-law was very worried, and we had made arrangements for him to warn us of any impending perils by a code.
The sheer density of documentation and numerous injunctions against labor mobility reflect these high rates as well as the government's sense of impending crisis.
Many of the old-age home residents turned their common experience into a social world that focused on seclusion and impending death.
