Sentences with phrase «as an alarm in»

If you are like me, you use your phone before bed and as an alarm in the morning.

Many carriers offer «Safe Car» discounts for air bags, antilock brakes, and antitheft devices such as alarms in the car.

However, its smart - home integration is limited to IFTTT, and its smoke - detection capabilities are only as good as the alarm in which you use it.

Just as alarming in terms of predicting loneliness and sadness were the low number of positive responses from students when asked their perceptions on whether people from other cultural backgrounds were «good», «honest», «nice / kind», «smart / intelligent» (see below).

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These findings — though not unique among the countries surveyed by Pew — could raise potential human rights alarm bells as both countries begin the long process of rebuilding their systems of jurisprudence in the wake of the U.S. exit.

That said, however, Apple has a large and powerful user base, and the fact that it is using that power to remove certain forms of advertising — and tools that advertisers and publishers use, such as user tracking — is bound to set off alarm bells in the industry.

As Clay reports, the sudden revelation that America's uncontested tech prowess, after generations of global leadership, may be under threat in the next couple of decades has raised alarm bells in some quarters of Washington.

Be it alarm systems, GPS, web cameras, HVAC or medical devices, such as pacemakers, it'd be hard to guess which of these devices are even connected to the internet in the first place.

A couple of years ago, the practice of showrooming — where shoppings would look at an item in a store then purchase it online — was on an alarming rise, with 50 percent of online purchases in 2012 occurring as a result of this behavior.

The spike in the use of sleeping pills has caused some alarm, with critics warning that these pills — sometimes known as benzos — actually cut down on critical REM sleep and slow - wave sleep during which we consolidate information, and pose a risk of dependence.

As Jill Boite Taylor describes it in her book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, the «alarm» lasts for 90 seconds and triggers a host of physical effects — rising blood pressure, tensed muscles and the release of adrenaline and other hormones.

Several Democratic senators pressed billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Monday to clarify his role as an adviser to President Donald Trump, saying his position in the administration raised «alarming» questions about potential conflicts of interest with his stakes in the biofuels and pharmaceutical industries.

He does not appear to have sounded any kind of alarm as the problems began to mount in the summer of 2007.

Nationalist fervor in places as disparate as the U.S., Great Britain, and Germany made closed borders one of the most commonly recurring themes of the year — alarming to travelers who live by the credo of a borderless world.

Last year, the central bank sounded an alarm, ranking the expansion of personal credit as the biggest threat to the economy, which is why everyone was shocked when Poloz suddenly cut interest rates in January.

Some data - analysis firms collect and cross-reference information such as IP addresses and previous purchases in a way that lets them compile profiles whose fine detail alarms privacy advocates.

As soon as I hear something like, «They worked for IBM,» or «They went to Harvard,» alarm bells start going off in my head because those are the wrong things to be looking at — at least as far as job qualifications gAs soon as I hear something like, «They worked for IBM,» or «They went to Harvard,» alarm bells start going off in my head because those are the wrong things to be looking at — at least as far as job qualifications gas I hear something like, «They worked for IBM,» or «They went to Harvard,» alarm bells start going off in my head because those are the wrong things to be looking at — at least as far as job qualifications gas far as job qualifications gas job qualifications go.

As Israeli cybersecurity giant Check Point noted in a post that sounded the alarm last week, the botnet is expanding «at a far greater pace and with more potential damage than the Mirai botnet of 2016.»

Yet even as the loudest voices in President Donald Trump's administration ratchet up their protectionist talk, experts aren't ready to sound the alarm that a «trade war» has officially kicked off.

It is not clear what percentage of metal held in Henry Bath was owned by JPMorgan's traders, but it was high enough to alarm the Federal Reserve and to make it difficult for JPMorgan to classify the asset as a strictly passive investment.

This alarms many in academia, as business majors have «the weakest gains during the first two years of college on a national test of writing and reasoning skills.»

Blankfein's mother worked as a receptionist at a burglar - alarm company — «one of the few growth industries in my neighborhood.»

Even more alarming research claims that one in five corporate leaders qualifies as having a high level of psychopathic traits.

This alarms North Korea's adversaries because the nation recently detonated a thermonuclear device that yielded the energy of perhaps 300 kilotons of TNT — about 20 times as much as the bomb the US detonated over Hiroshima in 1945.

Make your bedroom as dark as possible, turn the face of the alarm clock away from you and use a white noise machine or fan if you live in a loud neighborhood.

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The program came into being after Sage discovered, in a survey of its resellers, that an alarming number of these businesses counted the owner as the one and only active salesperson.

Unrest at large calderas rarely ends in eruption, encouraging vulnerable communities to perceive emergency warnings of volcanic activity as false alarms.

Not long after she took charge in June 2006, Bair began sounding the alarm about the dangers posed by the explosive growth of subprime mortgages, which she feared would not only ravage neighborhoods when homeowners began to default — as they inevitably did — but also wreak havoc on the banking system.

«As holders of more than 1.3 million Apple shares, Greenlight is alarmed that Apple is attempting to eliminate preferred stock from its corporate charter, hindering its ability to unlock value for shareholders,» Einhorn wrote in his shareholder letter.

As the markets began to crash, values in real estate started to rise and the demand for homeownership started to grow, at almost alarming levels.

Hardware-wise, Amazon has announced so many Echo devices in 2017 that it's hard to keep track of them, including updates to existing models as well as the Echo Show (with a 7 ″ screen), the Echo Look (which can take full - length photos of you and provide style recommendations), Echo Spot (a newfangled alarm clock), Echo Buttons (for Alexa - powered gameplay), and the Echo Plus (a speaker that doubles as a smart - home hub).

More alarming, the company's cash drain — as measured by free cash flow — increased dramatically, to a little more than $ 1 billion, from $ 276.8 million in the previous quarter.

Bitcoin's rising popularity in Indonesia has alarmed the country's central bank, which said last week it would ban it as a payment method next year.

In an interview with ThinkAdvisor, the industry critic shares his views, including a bold - face forecast about what he gauges as the rule's most alarming aspect, plus a withering critique of the industry lawsuits seeking to vacate the rule.

Social media accounts on Twitter reported that the park had been evacuated, and several news outlets — including Russian propaganda stations RT and Sputnik — published alarming stories based on the tweets, which escalated in hysteria as the afternoon stretched on.

Trump's opposition is alarming Northeastern Republicans such as Rep. Peter King of New York, who lobbied Trump on the project at a St. Patrick's luncheon in the Capitol last week.

«China has paved the way for a further weakening of its currency by announcing changes in how it measures the value of the renminbi, raising investors» alarm at the prospect a new currency war just as the US prepares to raise interest rates» (FT, 12/12/15).

In general, if an exchange notices suspicious pending transactions, it is already an alarm for something going wrong, and can serve as a signal of transaction malleability attack.

In addition to more borrowers, the average student loan debt per senior increased at an alarming rate as well.

U.S. stocks were mostly lower as the tense situation in Ukraine was brought back in the spotlight following a report from NATO who observed an alarming rise in Russian forces near the Ukraine border.

For example, Google acquired the Android operating system developer in 2005, which provided entry to the growing world of mobile computing, and also recently acquired Nest Labs, which develops automated in - home devices such as thermostats and smoke alarms that can be controlled using smart devices.

Legal & General Investment Management's Emiel van den Heiligenberg recently warned that investors should «check their brakes» as major economic indicators are starting to flash yellow warning signals — or in some cases, bright red alarms.

As Hitler rose to power in the early 1930s, Hildebrand rang the alarm bell again and again.

Their breakup is described in terms so muted as to be inhuman: «Jealousy did rear itself in their shanty from time to time, and the couple that was uncoupling did argue, but mostly they granted each other more space, a process that had been ongoing for quite a while, and if there was sorrow and alarm in this, there was relief too, and the relief was stronger.»

According to the prelate, the church attack has caused alarm among the local community, as the mainly Christian south of Nigeria has not suffered from the terror attacks carried out in the north by Boko Haram.

The critics found themselves so alarmed, of course, because now politically, culturally, and religiously conservative parents were educating their children at home and rejecting the influence of a system in which the critics — so many of them former countercultural types themselves — were heavily invested, and from which, as a Marxist would note, so many of them drew their salaries.

Driving the movement, too, is alarm over the explosion of illegitimate births in the urban underclass (now over 80 percent of births), as well as in the general population (around 30 percent of births).

Although he sympathized with the civil rights movement and actively opposed the Vietnam War» he was (with Richard John Neuhaus) a member of the steering committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam» he felt increasingly alarmed at the radicalism of the Movement, which reminded him of the street violence he had witnessed as a child in Nazi Germany.

This concern alarmed some of my friends, as it seemed to indicate a shift in my general outlook, and in some way there was indeed a new picture emerging.