imminent danger
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimminentanddanger
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imminent
adjective
uk/ˈɪm.ɪ.nənt/us/ˈɪm.ə.nənt/
coming or likely to happen ...
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danger
noun
uk/ˈdeɪn.dʒər/us/ˈdeɪn.dʒɚ/
the possibility of harm or death ...
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(Definition ofimminentanddangerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The basic thought is that a person whose life is inimminentdangerhas broad latitude to do what is necessar y to save his own life.
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An overhanging chimney is said to be solid by its owner, but a neighbor claims it is inimminentdanger of falling, crushing people beneath and part of his house.
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This book was difficult to read comfortably because the double page spread could not be opened to its full extent withoutimminentdangerof cracking the spine.
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Where life is, or is believed to be, inimminentdanger, assistance is provided if it can be, but without charge.
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But when that became animminentdanger, what did we do?
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He passes from comparative safety toimminentdanger.
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It is animminentdangerto our economic society.
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The generals are usually wrong, but it would seem that this time they agree that there is noimminentdangerof war.
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As commonly understood, we can go to war if we or our allies are inimminentdangerof being attacked.
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One could not search premises for this purpose unless one could prove "imminentdangerof loss of or injury to life, limb, health or property".
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The great structure, of which we all have reason to be so justly proud, is inimminentdanger, and when the right rev.
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There is greater danger in that, than there isimminentdangerto our cities or our coasts.
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Such decisions are always liable to be taken if there is animminentdangerof starvation.
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My school and university life was dominated by theimminentdangerof the next world war.
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As a result, five million people are starving, and over one million, including children, are inimminentdangerof dying of starvation.
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That fact does not indicate that the system is inimminentdangerof collapse.
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For some time, various reports have pointed to animminentdangerof a hot conflict.
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There is, in actual fact, animminentdangerof everything exploding.
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Suppose an inspector considers that a particular industrial process is dangerous and creates animminentdangerof serious injury.
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