Sentences with phrase «own warning shot»

But US Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the US - led coalition fighting Islamic State, told reporters the drone meant to attack them and dismissed the possibility it had fired a warning shot.

«This clearly showed a threat even if it were a warning shot; it was something that showed a hostile intent, a hostile action and posed a threat to our forces because this drone still had munitions that were still on it,» Dillon said.

OPINION: With a touch of irony, the central bank governor fires a warning shot in mortgage - stressed WA that rates will rise.

«The incident was a warning shot fired past my head,» he says, adding those couple of days were seriously stressful.

Google Fiber is a warning shot fired across the bow of those traditional ISPs.

A warning shot if ever there was one: Nike's sales in Western Europe, Adidas's home turf, grew three times as fast last year as Adidas's.

including rejoiningg the Trans - Pacific Partnership, and the president's «warning shot» at China over currency manipulation.

But more than that, you're gonna have to have a warning shot... that you will be outed, and you'll be out of the business, and you might be prosecuted.»

Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is clearly «a warning shot for the food retail industry that competition likely heightens on top of an already challenging retail backdrop,» Wells Fargo senior analyst Zachary Fadem wrote in a note to investors on Friday.

Earlier this summer, Clinton gave a speech that was widely interpreted as a warning shot against companies that classify their workers as 1099 contractors to avoid paying Social Security taxes and other costs associated with W - 2 employees.

In addition to hedging Disney's bets, Iger's comments also serve as a very obvious warning shot across the bow of cable companies and other distributors.

In July, the SEC issued a warning shot by declaring that digital tokens sold in a high - profile ICO last year were in fact securities that should have been registered with the agency.

A brief swoon in publicly traded tech stock prices last April — particularly in the enterprise sector — was seen industrywide as a warning shot that startups should control their «burn rates» and raise as much new money as possible to protect against a future funding drought.

It's to send a warning shot at all colleges and universities to restrain academic freedom or risk further economic assaults on higher education,» Wilson wrote for Inside Higher Ed.

This is a warning shot across the bow of higher education, done for explicit ideological reasons to try to pressure institutions to silence leftists and lift up conservatives.

In a warning shot to the banks, the ECB raised the amount of collateral they must post for any loans.

SAN FRANCISCO — A week ago, Airbnb fired off a warning shot to cities that it would fight back if municipal officials proposed rules that might curtail its home - sharing service.

This first round is a warning shot, to be sure.

Consider this plain news or the warning shot it was to older attendees furtively Googling names.

Conservative pressure groups fired a warning shot Monday at members of Congress eyeing measures that would free up federal funding to stabilize Obamacare's wobbly markets.

In my view, the problems that we've observed so far are only a warning shot.

By midday Tuesday Mr. Snowden himself, in a Twitter message from his exile in Moscow, declared that «circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility» for publication, which he interpreted as a warning shot to the American government in case it was thinking of imposing sanctions against Russia in the cybertheft of documents from the Democratic National Committee.

Is it just another warning shot, or something worse?

The first warning shot occurred a couple of weeks ago after some governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board indicated that the time has come to consider scaling back the quantitative easing (QE) program that is pumping $ 85 billion a month in new money into the economy.

If they see you applying for lots of credit at once, they'll tighten their purse strings and fire a few warning shots at your credit score.

U.S. negotiators began trade talks with the Chinese on Thursday, with Beijing vowing that it can win a protracted trade war and halting orders for American - grown soybeans as a warning shot.

A warning shot across my proverbial bow.

God has not yet destroyed the city, but we could call this a warning shot.

But if that doesn't cause you to turn from your sin, He may send a little warning shot — a slap on the hand.

The ACCC's warning shot prompted Murray Goulburn to test 2007 merger authorisation legislation for the first time by going straight to the tribunal for merger approval on public benefits grounds.

Per Mertesacker has thrown out a warning shot to his team - mates who may not get more chances for Arsenal thanks to dismal display.

This should be another warning shot to the League though..

Surely this will have sent a big warning shot across the bows of their Premier League rivals, but will it persuade Arsene Wenger that he needs to improve his options at Arsenal before the transfer window closes?

That means an unlikely win today would bring them to within a point of Man City, and would be a warning shot for any teams hoping to secure a place in the top four.

While I don't think the Barcelona result was a warning shot that Liverpool are a serious team, I do think the result was a perfect display in the strengths of Klopps tactics and if you mess around with the ball too much or make mistakes in dangerous positions they are going to be pretty ruthless in punishing you.

While it will certainly be easier said than done, a convincing win against the Baggies will not only get the wind back in the sails of the team but also fire a warning shot to Tim Sherwood's side, sending a message that the Gunners are firing again and letting the former Spurs boss know that he has to attack if he wants to win.

Entering this game as a heavy underdog, Team Dean shot off a warning shot to the rest of the league by securing a massive 95 - 90 victory.

Those hits were warning shots.

While recreational players can't throw their money at Jared Goff fast enough, professionals have spent the week pounding the hook which not only helps balance the books for oddsmakers, but also fires a warning shot that sharp money is ready to pounce should sportsbooks give into one - sided Rams action and adjust to 4.

The visitors were first to attack and Amine Chermiti had a warning shot sail over the bar early on.

Liverpool flop Iago Aspas» fourth - minute warning shot from an acute angle forced Sergio Romero into action and Gustavo Cabral missed the target from a corner as the threat continued.

Had Mourinho taken him off instead of Ibrahimovic, it might just have been the warning shot that he needs to shake him out of his miserable run of form.

Arsenal had already given a warning shot after both Jack Wilshere and Samir Nasri came close to scoring.

Stevan Jovetić rattled the crossbar with a warning shot from range, and Montenegro quickly made England pay for their profligacy, Damjanović redirecting Fatos Bećiraj's off - target effort.

Democrats postponed their leadership election until Nov. 30 after junior lawmakers demanded more time to digest the party's disappointing Election Day showing, a warning shot at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

The labor - backed Working Families Party has fired a warning shot at two Democrats who broke ranks with their party along with seven others to vote with the GOP on a vote that would have ended the government shutdown, accusing them of siding with «Tea Party bullies trying to stop Obamacare.»

Warning shots were fired by Police to prevent some people from whisking the ballot boxes away.

With Labour leader Ed Miliband now issuing no - holds - barred attacks on Mr Murdoch and the prime minister firing a warning shot across the bows this morning by telling reporters he would have accepted Rebekah Brokes» resignation, the last thing the media mogul needed was a negative impact on his business efforts, especially after he took the drastic step of closing the News of ten World yesterday.

The back and forth scene became violent to the extent that the bodyguard of the minister was forced to fire warning shots to restore order.

That was the reaction of the Working Families Party, the labor - backed organization that slammed Felder's decision and provided a warning shot to any other Democrats (such as the unnamed Independent Democratic Conference) for aligning themselves with the state Senate Republicans.