#impending

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#blood #god #impending #jesus #john

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american foreign policy #aspects #barack #battle #change

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. ↗

— Charles Adams

#bring #catastrophe #create #down #expediency

I wish we could go to the movies." I stared at him. "We're in a creepy dungeon. There's a chance I might die in the next few hours. You are going to die in the next few hours. And if you had one wish, it would be to catch a movie? ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#demonglass #impending-doom #movies #rachel-hawkins #sophie

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how? ↗

— John Burns

#call #events #how #however #i

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#believe #courage #dangers #darkest #enforce

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade. ↗

— David E. Price

#critical #decade #education #face #impending

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

#ago #dried #everyone #few #impending

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how