• In law:
  • Imminent threat
    Imminent threat
    Hugo Grotius, the 17th century jurist and father of public international law, stated in his 1625 magnum opus The Law of War and Peace that "Most Men assign three Just Causes of War, Defense, the Recovery of what's our own, and Punishment."...
    
    , justification for the use of force in international law
  • Right of self-defense for civilians requires a similar "imminent" threat
  • Assault (tort)
    Assault (tort)
    In common law, assault is the tort of acting intentionally, that is with either general or specific intent, causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact. Because assault requires intent, it is considered an intentional tort, as opposed to a tort of negligence...
    
    , requires that harm is imminent, even if harm does not in fact occur
  • Imminent lawless action
    Imminent lawless action
    "Imminent lawless action" is a standard currently used, and that was established by the United States Supreme Court in Brandenburg v. Ohio , for defining the limits of freedom of speech. Brandenburg clarified what constituted a "clear and present danger", the standard established by Schenck v....
    
    , justification for restriction of free speech, superseding the earlier "clear and present danger"
  • Exigent circumstance
    Exigent circumstance
    An exigent circumstance, in the American law of criminal procedure, allows law enforcement to enter a structure without a warrant, or if they have a "knock and announce" warrant, without knocking and waiting for refusal under certain circumstances...
    
    , justification for law enforcement to enter property without a warrant, may involve imminence
• End time, religious beliefs regarding the imminence or otherwise of the end of the world
  • Second Coming
    Second Coming
    In Christian doctrine, the Second Coming of Christ, the Second Advent, or the Parousia, is the anticipated return of Jesus Christ from Heaven, where he sits at the Right Hand of God, to Earth. This prophecy is found in the canonical gospels and in most Christian and Islamic eschatologies...
    
     of Jesus
    • Imminence in the Olivet discourse, problematic passage in the Gospels
• Mayday (distress signal)
  Mayday (distress signal)
  Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications. It derives from the French venez m'aider, meaning "come help me"....
  
  , meaning "grave and imminent danger"

• Imminent, Belgian electronic noise music project
• Impact is Imminent
  Impact is Imminent
  Impact Is Imminent is the fourth album by thrash metal band Exodus and their first with Capitol Records. This is the first album to feature John Tempesta on drums and is the last studio album to feature Rob McKillop on bass, though he would appear on their next live album, "Good Friendly Violent...
  
  , fourth album by thrash metal band Exodus
• Imminent Indeed
  Imminent Indeed
  Imminent Indeed is a gothic adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. Written and directed by Bryn Manion with the assistance of Wendy Remington, and leading man, Sam. Produced by the aforementioned Creatives and the founding board members of the company of Aisling Arts...
  
  , gothic adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera

Similar spellings

• Eminence (disambiguation)
• Immanence
  Immanence
  Immanence refers to philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence, in which the divine is seen to be manifested in or encompassing of the material world. It is often contrasted with theories of transcendence, in which the divine is seen to be outside the material world...
  
  , existence and action within the mind or the world; as opposed to transcendence