IMMINENT THREAT

  

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IMMINENT THREAT

Specialty Definition: IMMINENT THREAT

DomainDefinition

Environment

A high probability that exposure is occurring. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: IMMINENT THREAT

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Georgia

This document shows progress in that Georgia has become the first former Soviet State to openly acknowledge that corruption is a very serious and imminent threat to democratic and economic stability. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

A March amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code allows defendants immediate access to counsel when they have been arrested and referred for a psychiatric examination; this amendment was scheduled take effect in January 2002. A new Criminal Procedure Code, passed by the Duma in March, was scheduled to be phased in between 2002 and 2004. The new Code stipulates that if the police have probable cause to believe that a suspect has committed a crime, or that the suspect is an imminent threat to others, they may detain him for only 24 hours, during which time they must notify the procurator, who then has 48 hours to confirm the charge or release the suspect. (references)

Trade

Canada

Military export permits are normally denied to countries representing a strategic threat to Canada or its allies: countries involved in or under imminent threat of hostilities; countries under UN sanction; or countries whose governments have a persistent record of serious human rights violations, unless there is no reasonable risk that the goods might be used against the civilian population. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: IMMINENT THREAT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

imminent threat

3

bush imminent threat

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: IMMINENT THREAT

Language Translations for "IMMINENT THREAT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

les ministres sont convenus que, dans le cas d'une menace imminente d'actes de terrorisme, les autorités des pays intéressés prendraient sur le champ et en coopération les mesures nécessaires pour y faire face (the authorities in the countries concerned should take immediate co-operative action as necessary, the Ministers agreed that in the event of an imminent threat of terrorist action). (various references)

   

German

  

die Minister kamen ueberein, dass die Behoerden der betroffenen Laender im Falle unmittelbar drohender Terrorakte sofort in Zusammenarbeit die erforderlichen Gegenmassnahmen ergreifen sollten (the authorities in the countries concerned should take immediate co-operative action as necessary, the Ministers agreed that in the event of an imminent threat of terrorist action). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

imminentay eatthray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: IMMINENT THREAT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-i-i-m-m-n-n-r-t-t-t"

-4 letters: tiemannite.

-5 letters: entertain, interment, intimater, itinerant, itinerate, ninetieth, remitment, remittent, terminate, treatment.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: IMMINENT THREAT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4D 4D 49 4E 45 4E 54      54 48 52 45 41 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001101 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000101 01001110 01010100 00100000 01010100 01001000 01010010 01000101 01000001 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#77 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004D 004D 0049 004E 0045 004E 0054      0054 0048 0052 0045 0041 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43474743483948542544252393554

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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