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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
impend .
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Examples
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Despite the hyperventilation on the Right over the consequences of government borrowing (something the never borrowed them when George W Bush was charging up the national tab for Iraq) nothing comparable impends against the US today. gordon gekko Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Social Democracy as a Recession-Fighter 2009
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The announced time is fulfilled, God's reign impends.
Books 2009
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(Jesper Christensen) who, as doom impends, skips work for the first time in his life ("..and the last shall go first?") to be with his family, while the wealthiest man, -- well let's say for now that he hits the hay early when he's needed most.
Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012
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Not a perfect Indian scene but surely impends towards it.
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Now, as a truly better social state becomes visible, a new poverty impends: a poverty of vision and a poverty of social action to make that vision reality.
HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY? JERRY DOYLE 2010
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The second pertains to the recognition that trauma is built into the basic structure of our existence: In virtue of our finitude and the finitude of all those with whom we are deeply connected, the possibility of emotional trauma constantly impends and is ever-present.
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In virtue of our finitude and the finitude of all those with whom we are deeply connected, the possibility of emotional trauma is ever present and always impends as a constant threat.
Robert D. Stolorow: Health Care Reform, Climate Change, and the Evasion of Our Mortality 2009
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I sing der snorgly belleh and wigglybutt of deth and impends duumz
hug? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Because he himself made the great as well as the small, and he provides for all alike; but for those in power a rigorous scrutiny impends.
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It is no cause for wonder, surely, that even a gang of blackguards should make haste to get home when a wide river is to be crossed in small boats, when storm impends, and when night approaches.
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