Sentences with phrase «of alarm calls»

Thus we get a proliferation of alarm calls about all sorts of attitudes, behaviours and hazards but those pundits are as blind to many of the relevant signs as we were before the rise of the Nazis.

One of the ways that primates avoid predators is with the use of alarm calls.

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But facing an alarming labor shortage, the resort town is hosting a class called «Hispanics 101,» the actual name of the course, designed to help employers better attract laborers to fill the 2,050 vacancies before the summer season kicks into full swing.

The Chamber of Commerce put out a report today — actually I can't find much in the way of background research on their web site — which points with alarm to labour and skills shortages, and calls for a less generous EI program to get -LSB-...]

The Chamber of Commerce put out a report today — actually I can't find much in the way of background research on their web site — which points with alarm to labour and skills shortages, and calls for a less generous EI program to get workers to move to the supposedly available jobs.

There is no delay for caressing words of prayerful invocation; rude as a wakening alarm, we call for God to get moving.

Reuters: Preacher alarms many Egyptians with calls for Islamist vice police Many Egyptian viewers were horrified when preacher Hisham el - Ashry recently popped up on primetime television to say women must cover up for their own protection and advocated the introduction of religious police.

The Christian peer Baroness Cox — who in 2011 attempted in the House of Lords to enact legislation called the Arbitration and Mediation Services Equality Bill, to protect women living here from the effects of Sharia as it is already allowed to be practised in this country — reacted to this démarche with some alarm.

Where alarms of mass confusion threaten the public life, schemes are called for.

The # of mosques in US are getting different shape & form calling them Islamic center, which is not alarming for the west.

Last year, my wife, Bobbie, led a movement on social media called #middaybabymidday — mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people to set their alarms for midday and pray for the nations, to warfare against darkness and take a stand against the enemy that his plans shall not prosper.

The calls for civil disobedience that some of your contributors issued should be alarming to anyone and most of all to members of a vulnerable minority like the Jews.

Evangelicals further to the right, such as Brown, view that trend as alarming evidence of an extreme «laxist tendency,» and thus they call for the purification described above.

The appeals of Byzantium for help and the alarm aroused by Seljuq victories in Anatolia provided the occasion for the call made by the papacy for a crusade.

It does not portray how alarming the acceptance of this so - called religion is into our midst.

You've gotten through two days of early alarms, sleepy cups of coffee, wobbling ankles in heels at 6:30 am (me every morning), and early work calls that just make you want to crawl back into bed with the covers over your head.

But what most people never knew was that he chose to use a store - bought mix called Wick Fowler's 2 - Alarm chili featuring a package of spices and simply added stew meat....

Zerbes shaved in golf - course parking lots, using a razor, a cup of cold water and an automobile's side - view mirror, slept in fields he called «the Greengrass Motel,» and carried alarm clocks everywhere.

If you read the text of the bill that pertains to school food, it's pretty clear why parents are so alarmed: it calls for a complete repeal of all nutrition standards currently governing the national school lunch and breakfast programs.

Growing in size and influence at an alarming rate, the site's main feature is the new and improved version of Gavin's «DOs and DO N'Ts,» now tantalizingly called Street Boners.

If you feel a bit alarmed at the prospect, call the friend's parents and ask them a bit about what to expect; this can also help you get a better sense of what they believe and whether you feel comfortable with the concepts.

Officers responded to a call of a hold - up alarm about 8:15 a.m. at the store in the 3400 block of West Diversey Avenue, said Police News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada.

In light of a recent wave of media coverage related to a report stating that «alarming» levels of arsenic, lead and cadmium were found in baby food, we called a pediatric nutrition expert to help us navigate this news cycle.

Alarmed by the events in the Gaza Strip, President Obama and Secretary Clinton called the leaders of several countries with the greatest influence in the region: Egypt, Turkey, France and Qatar.

The Freedom House Nations in Transit 2011 report called this «an alarming concentration of political power over the media».

This was followed by a similar call from Dave Palmer, executive director of the Center for Working Families, a WFP ally, who said the governor and legislative leaders should «heed the alarm» sounded by US Attorney Preet Bharara and pass a system of «voter - owned elections.»

He said,» The Command is shocked to receive an avalanche of calls from panic stricken individuals, arising from a false alarm to the effect that robbers are operating in some banks along Unity and Taiwo areas, the alarm is false, fake and a ploy to cause unnecessary panic in the minds of the people.

Alarmed over the number of reported rapes in the city, elected officials are calling on police to beef up security.

But even as he sounded the alarm, it remained to be seen whether his call to action would actually reverse the subway's decline and change the daily experience of frustrated riders.

«Petty and counter-productive restrictions on sending books and other essentials to prisoners remain in place, and calls for the Ministry of Justice to fully reverse its policy are only getting louder against a backdrop of ever more overcrowding, growing unrest and an alarming rise in the number of suicides behind bars.»

The Catholic Conference opposes the chapter amendment option, calling the possibility of its passage in this case «disturbing news» that «gives great cause for alarm among those who seek genuine protections for the deeply held religious beliefs and mission of individuals and organizations in this state.»

This brings to 41, the total number of persons who have been put before court in connection with the murder of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama whose death has reignited calls for laws on mob injustice that has assumed an alarming rate in recent times.

«That this House opposes the Government's plans to impose a polyclinic, or GP - led health centre, in every primary care trust; regrets that this could result in the closure of up to 1,700 GP surgeries; is concerned that the imposition of polyclinics against the will of patients and GPs could be detrimental to standards of care, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable, by breaking the vital GP / patient link; further regrets that these plans are being imposed without consultation; is alarmed at the prospective loss of patient access to local GP services at a time when care closer to home should be strengthened; believes that the Government's plans would jeopardise the independence and commissioning capability of general practice in the future; supports the strengthening of access to diagnostic and therapeutic services without undermining the structure of GP services; and calls on the Government to reconsider its plans for polyclinics.

The Peoples Democratic Party has raised the alarm over what it called the commencement of a vicious Federal Government induced clampdown on opposition figures.

October 31 2009: An early Saturday morning 5 alarm fire gutted 14 stores on the corner of East 204 street and Bainbridge ave.. After receiving a phone call from a friend, I rushed to the location at about 3:30 am.

But it was his call for every Labour MP to be re-selected for their seats after a review by Parliament which will cause alarm for his colleagues in the House of Commons.

He called a recent New York Times report that the 115th Precinct was one of four in the city where the police were most likely to use force in making stop - and - frisks «alarming.»

«We agree we don't want to alarm people,» Graber had said to senior Environmental Protection Agency officials on the call, according to notes taken by EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck and obtained through a Freedom of Information request.

Spitzer's father had driven all three of his children to push their intellectual limits, but figuring out a way to break into the Gambinos» West 35th Street office to plant a bug — by using Con Ed trucks on a phony repair call, by picking locks, switching off alarms, and evading motion detectors — then listening to hundreds of hours of tapes of Tommy and Joe Gambino cursing and joking and scheming?

IMANI Africa first sounded an alarm over the details of the deal and called for its immediate termination.

She said that since she decided to run, she has received a large number of calls from parents with older children «that are alarmed who have a child involved or a friend of a child and they're begging for somebody to take a stand and say something.»

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R.) expressed alarm Tuesday night over the flipping of a longtime Republican seat in the state Senate to the Democrats, tweeting the result was a «wake up call.»

Last week I wrote about how the solitary, nocturnal Sahamalaza sportive lemur eavesdrops on the alarm calls of several species that occupy the same forests, including the crested coua, in order to avoid predation.

Not only do their alarm calls tell others about the type and size of approaching predators, but it seems they can also warn of the hue of an imminent threat.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK and the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, conducted research on wild bonobos and found that in this species individuals produce a call type, known as the «peep», across a range of positive, negative and neutral situations, such as during feeding, travel, rest, aggression, alarm, nesting and grooming.

A 2007 United Nations report noted that 20 percent of the globe's mangrove forests had vanished in the 25 years between 1980 and 2005, a rate that the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's director called «alarming.»

Con Slobodchikoff of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and his colleagues had previously shown that they produce different alarm calls in response to humans, coyotes, domestic dogs and red - tailed hawks.

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They understand each other's alarm calls, some of their gestures.

Nearly 40 percent of Americans are part of categories called the «alarmed» or «concerned,» meaning they are more likely to say global warming is man - made and are motivated to do something about it.