A telephone company, for instance, can tell which team is winning the Super Bowl simply by looking at how many people are making phone calls at any given time, ... The National Security Agency uses this technique to monitor calls in Afghanistan or Pakistan, to try to predict an impending terrorist attack.
Quotes about impending (15 Quotes)
We just thought that it made sense to tie a good cause like the food bank together with something that has generated a lot of talk and interest in the community, which is the impending implosion.
This is the first incident of its kind in Bangalore despite the fact that the state and central governments had been forewarned of an impending attack in the city.
The man is quiet, but firm as a rock, yet sensitive to the first imperceptible signs of impending changes. He does not delay in taking action.
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.
After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
If the trend with pre-retires continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially. Taxpayers will bear the burden.
I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?
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?
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.
The path of duty is the only path of safety. It is the only path wherein we can walk and have the assurance of God's continued blessings, of his continued deliverances. Any other course does not carry with it this assurance. Any other path leads to darkness, to contention, to evils of many kinds for it leads away from the truth and the right. But if we continue in the path that is marked out for us by divine instruction, trusting implicitly in God, then shall we be delivered from all impending evils that are sought to be brought upon us, no matter what they may be and the nearer we live to God the greater will be the blessings showered upon us, and seeming evils will be changed to blessings of untold worth.
Mr. Harrison's talk comes at the perfect time for the eager developer audience at the GDC. His discussion will answer many questions developers have for Sony at this stage before the impending PS3 launch.
Why are we downgrading the stock now Mainly because of our belief that sales may not be advancing at the rate that we had previously anticipated and also because of the impending departure of Galli.
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.
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.