Sentences with phrase «as a warning system»

Regular surveys among the nurses could serve as a warning system to identify deficits early in the care process.

Although pain can serve as a warning system by telling you to take your hand off a hot plate or to go to the ER, pain isn't always a reason for alarm.

There's also the use of radar as a warning system for «near obstacle detection» that would alert the driver to vehicles in or approaching the lanes on either side of him and keep him from pulling into the path of another car.

Carbon monoxide detectors are also available to be installed as a warning system.

This is done to avoid frequently alerting users ashore and rendering the system impractical as a warning system for a large segment of the population.

Not exact matches

Shareholders led by the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and Fresno County Employees» Retirement Association in California accused Facebook of concealing internal concerns about how growth in mobile devices might reduce revenue, even as it quietly warned its banks to cut their forecasts.

Considering the sprawling, federated nature of U.S. medicine, experts warn that a combination of government policies and health IT upgrades — as well as prophylactic human measures like changing passwords — will be necessary to keep patients» data safe and health systems functioning.

Chinese news portal Sina said Thursday that the B - 52s were vulnerable to Chinese radar and early - warning systems, as well as to S - 400 antiaircraft systems imported from Russia.

Even as national governments accept that the current taxation system needs to be altered, the path forward is fraught with difficulties, with some countries warning that a new levy could discourage digital use and push customers to products outside of Europe.

While «both the A-10 and Su - 25 carry radar warning receivers, neither is equipped with missile approach warning systems capable of providing reliable detection and tracking of incoming heat - seeking missiles such as MANPADS and have to rely on flares and defensive maneuvring to avoid being hit even if the pilot does manage to detect a hostile launch,» Bronk said.

The report also gave details about a two - year - old warning from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a bipartisan organization, that described the state of America's aging voting system as an «impending crisis.»

The fresh numbers come as an international financial group owned by the world's central banks says Canada's credit - to - gross - domestic - product and debt - service ratios show early warning signs of potential risk to the banking system in the coming years.

Researchers already have identified malware capable of hacking a car through its infotainment system and warn that something as seemingly innocuous as a Wi - Fi - enabled digital picture frame could allow intruders to access a home's entire network of connected devices and private information.

The aircraft is much similar to its predecessors, an IRST bump in front of the cockpit in the nose section as well as the missile warning system on the air intakes are the main external differentiators.

Just as I turned in to the parking lot a warning light appeared on the dash, indicating some sort of cooling system failure.

Based on that logic, Enbridge has warned that oil companies could pay as much as $ 315 - million in additional annual tolls by 2013 if Keystone XL is built, and takes away some of the crude that might otherwise flow through the Enbridge system.

But as home computing migrates away from the laptop, the tablet and the smartphone, experts warn that the security features on the coming wave of automobiles, dishwashers and alarm systems lag far behind.

Figures such as Bill Gates and Larry Summers are stepping forward to warn us that digital systems will become a greater disruption to jobs earlier than most people realize.

While it may seem as though Chinese authorities have started to get a grip on shadow banking, Moody's also warns that the ability of the formal financial system to replace shadow credit lines «may not be a perfect substitute».

His ground breaking research on complex systems modelling of debt - deflation was awarded the eminent Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review, describing Keen as the economist «who first and most clearly anticipated and gave public warning of the Global Financial Collapse and whose work is most likely to prevent another GFC in the future».

Yet, when someone has been traumatized, their natural warning system has been damaged, and it tells them to live in constant high alert; it's as though there is danger lurking around every corner.

In the United States, health care providers and others involved in the health care system (including employers and insurers) are threatened by the dictatorship of relativism in the guise of the Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services, as the bishops of the United States have warned.

It is such moral revulsion that speaks in the prophetic warnings and denunciations where we commonly meet the scathing summary of this whole system of religion: «On every high hill and under every green tree you prostrated yourself as a harlot» (Jer.

Levine adds; «Ruth's actions offer no means for improving the social system of Bethlehem,» and; «It is the reader's task to determine whether this book affirms Ruth or ultimately erases her, whether she serves as a moral exemplar or as a warning against sexually forward Gentile women.»

Of course, there's a reason our warning system flashes when a literary character is introduced as charming.

Drinks manufacturers, academics and campaigners have proposed ideas such as altering packaging in small ways, such as including more warnings on existing drinks labels or instituting a drinks - based traffic light system based on calorie and alcohol content.

If these early warning signs are not headed, more serious reactions may result as the immune system becomes more and more compromised.

You might want to have a system in place: one warning, followed by consequences such as a «time out» or loss of privileges.

They know very well how to read the signs that serve as the early warning system indicating the likelihood of an impending mom - meltdown.

Author and Yale law professor Amy Chua, known as the «Tiger Mom» for her intense parenting style, book and controversial prescriptions for American motherhood, warned Wednesday against reducing rigor and discipline in our education system and argued that advancing our meritocracy was the key to continued American competitiveness.

He told politics.co.uk his policy committee functioned as an «early warning system» against steps taken by the coalition government which «could cause significant problems for a significant number of Liberal Democrat MPs».

As such, Thompson postulated Plato's warning that democracy frequently leads to tyranny of the majority, where ill - informed populations hamstring the political system, now seems increasingly prescient:

«At all stages along the way, people can fall out of the system,» Mr Barnes said, warning that the emergency services must stop looking at disasters as impersonal incidents, and instead an event that involves individuals.

Martin Bell, who served as an independent MP from 1997 - 2001, warned MPs would continue to abuse the expenses system until an independent regulator was brought in.

As part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as CroatiAs part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as Croatias Croatia.

Education stakeholder groups warned that creating a new evaluation system under the same conditions as the last one likely won't lead to better results.

«Instead of being treated as unfortunate yet unavoidable road kill from the Top Two, we should be seen as canaries in the coal mine, warning of the deeply unrepresentative and undemocratic nature of our electoral system.»

The government is seeking increased aid and investment in African agricultural production from G8 leaders, as well as the establishment of an «early warning system for food supply».

It warns the government's use of the classification system as a means of «sending out signals» to potential users is at odds with the stated objectives of classifying drugs on the basis of harm.

«I think when it comes to the banking system, people are living in denial about quite how vulnerable we are as an economy,» he warned, describing Britain's economy as being placed in a «unique constellation of vulnerabilities».

But then, it's hardly surprising that things don't improve when whistleblowers issuing warnings about the system are treated as Spear has been.

«Improvements in the court system must not be sacrificed as a result of the failures of government prison policy,» he warned.

As part of this, a «red card» warning system would strengthen whistle - blowing mechanisms to prevent failures like the collapse of Carillion and BHS.

The select committee also criticised the funding available for the proposed reforms, hailed as the biggest overhaul of the coroner system for 700 years, warning that it would do little to lift this «seriously under - resourced service from its current state of neglect».

Ms Blacklaws warned cases such as Baby P «may become commonplace» if the government doesn't put more resources into the family justice system.

But while welcoming the measure as potentially leading to increased air traffic into Ghana, airline operator Gloria Wilkinson warned that the country would have to ensure its security measures were tight to prevent possible abuse of the system.

It is this plan that critics such as the RCN and Labour's shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, have warned would turn the NHS into a two - tier system in which those who can pay get preferential treatment.

The early warning system will include nine financial indicators, such as cash - on - hand and patterns of operating deficits, together with broader demographic information like population trends and tax assessment growth.

The comptroller says the percentage score, with 100 percent being as stressed out as a municipality can get, is an «early warning system.»

Theresa May has warned that ditching Britain's nuclear deterrent would be a «reckless gamble», as MPs prepare to vote on the Trident missile system.