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The paper presents criteria for a complex space to be hyperbolic, hyperbolically imbedded, taut or tautly imbedded. In particular, the following generalization of theorems by Eastwood and Kobayashi is produced by replacing the requirement of hyperbolicity of the image space by normality of the mapping: Let \(f:X\to Z\) be a normal map between complex spaces \(X\) and \(Z\). If either (1) there is an open cover \(\{V_\alpha\}\) of \(Z\) such that each connected component of \(f^{-1} (V_\alpha)\) is hyperbolic or (2) for every \(z\in Z\) each connected component of \(f^{-1}(z)\) is compact hyperbolic, then \(X\) is hyperbolic. The following common generalization of results of Zaidenberg and Abate is also established: A complex subspace \(X\) of a complex space \(Y\) is hyperbolically imbedded in \(Y\) if the inclusion map from \(X\) to \(Y\) is normal.