Sentences with phrase «into false alarms»

Many women, particularly first - time moms, get into false alarms and trips to the hospital.

Not exact matches

Earlier this month, a false alarm that a ballistic missile was headed for Hawaii sent the islands into a panic, with people abandoning cars and preparing to flee their homes until officials said the cellphone alert was a mistake.

But at the core of the original false - alarm mechanism of laughter is incongruity: the incongruity of a grave threat revealing itself to be trivial — or, as the philosopher Immanuel Kant (an advocate of the incongruity theory) put it, «the sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing.»

Then again, it could give you a false alarm or lull you into a false sense of security.

If you are starting to spot a pattern here, then you'd be right: every time anything at all happens to the fire alarm system (including a false alarm), this should be recorded into the log book.

If you dig into your pocket to protect yourself and your family with a more sophisticated system, you won't have to dig any deeper to pay false alarm penalty fees.

Sensors need to be aligned, other technical issues can come into play, and if you've messed up the installation, false alarms can re-occur.

The central idea of the article is a vicious feedback loop: Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous statements = > Advocates and media translate statements into alarmist declarations = > Politicians respond to alarm by feeding scientists more money = > [a larger number of scientists and pseudo --RSB- Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous [or false] statements...

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