Assad s fall does not yet seem imminent, but it has become inevitable.

Fearing that a financial collapse is imminent, Greek depositors rush for the exit.

The coup faced wide popular opposition and collapsed in three days, but disintegration of the Union became imminent.

CARICOM trusts that such collaboration will be forthcoming from all quarters of the United Nations.

This alliance lacks the legitimacy to decide whether a situation is an imminent threat or a potential danger.

We welcome the forthcoming international conference on Iraq to be held in Egypt from 23 to 25 November 2004.

By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.

I argued that things would not get better until they got much worse, and that the collapse of one of the world s largest financial firms was imminent.

(b) To respond effectively to information that comes before her, in particular when an extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary execution is imminent or seriously threatened or when such an execution has occurred

4. Recognizes the upcoming completion of the political transition according to the Bonn process, with the establishment of the National Assembly of Afghanistan, as well as the challenges lying ahead, and calls upon the international community to continue to provide sustained support

The establishment of the Personnel Conduct Unit in UNMIS would require the establishment of 10 additional posts estimated at 1.2 million, which will be included in the forthcoming mission budget for the period 2005 06.

The regime has lost all legitimacy, and its effectiveness is weakening. When it finally crumbles, the powerful state built by Bashar s father, Hafez al Assad, will hardly exist.

In a post conflict settlement in which the party defeated could not be considered to be an imminent threat to peace and security, the Security Council has, following resolution 687 (1991), imposed de facto treaty obligations on States without their consent.

BERKELEY After a period of high tension between the United States and China, culminating earlier this month in rumblings of an all out trade war, it is now evident that a change in Chinese exchange rate policy is coming.

Both were keen to make a clear distinction between, on the one hand, pre emptive or anticipatory self defence, to which a State might resort when an attack on its territory was clearly imminent, and on the other, long range preventive use of force to deal with latent, non imminent or even hypothetical threats.

World leaders signed the Agreed Framework with North Korea in 1994 (I was engaged in the process as Australia s foreign minister), but we dragged our feet in building the nuclear reactors and delivering the heavy fuel oil promised, partly owing to a widespread belief that the regime s collapse was imminent.

We believe that a good way to counter the threat of the emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction in the arsenals of States or non State actors, including terrorists, is to create a machinery for initiating prompt multilateral response and prohibiting such types of weapons as soon as the risk of their appearance becomes imminent.