Negotiators today turned their hopes of meeting an imminent deadline for resolving the impasse threatening the Northern Ireland peace agreement to a long-awaited report on whether paramilitary organizations are willing to disarm.

The agency here, among others, has created teams to expedite cases with imminent deadlines.

But the dairy compact itself is facing an imminent deadline.

The agency faced an imminent deadline to challenge those prices or let the companies possibly pocket hundreds of millions of dollars in unfair profits.

The problem is there is no imminent deadline or anything to bring this to a close.

At the moment it broke, Lewinsky was facing an imminent deadline for striking an immunity deal with Starr's office.

On behalf of the Matsubara Corporation I'd like to apologise for the late start, particularly to those with imminent deadlines.

His 3,000-word essay for Penguin Books is due in a few days, a deadline more imminent and arguably more deserving of his attention than Election Day.

Which is another way of saying that perhaps he writes best with an imminent deadline.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, officials tried to play down the notion of an imminent deadline.