Word: impendingness
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The current energy crunch may also induce government intervention in the impending strike. While an invocation of the Taft-Hartley Act and an injunction providing for an eighty day cooling-off period would be the government's simplest move, such action would merely delay the strike to the coldest months...
The imminent elevation of the miner's position to that of workers in other industries comes during a period of change for the coal industry. American energy needs will require a doubling of coal production by 1980. The coal industry, which has undergone a longterm decline since the disappearance of...
Gregori Chukhrai, who directed the film, emphasizes the individual suffering of all the characters, gives a tragic portrait of a whole people whose lives are disrupted by war. Alyosha, whose naive heroism and perpetual optimism are particularly pathetic in light of his impending death, is an example of wasted potential...
There was, however, no evidence of a direct threat to Olsen. Federal District Judge Miles Lord instructed the jurors that they could consider Olsen's fear of rape "a legal excuse" if they thought it "a well-founded fear of impending ... serious bodily injury" and if he had no...
The great theologies of Western man?Judaism, Christianity, Islam?have historically demanded that a wrongdoer, no matter how highly placed, repent before he is forgiven. King David of Israel, warned by the prophet Nathan of impending punishment for his crime in stealing Bathsheba, threw himself into days of fasting and...