Sentences with phrase «to be a false alarm»
There will be false alarms as a result, but a better shot at avoiding big regrets in the long haul.
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There have been false alarms in the past, when people have thought they were seeing missing energy.
There have of course been false alarms before, but the movement on and off the pitch seems to have helped.
We suspect that many of these new candidates at the low signal - to - noise limit may be false alarms created by instrumental noise, and discuss our efforts to identify such objects.
Most often, these data are false alarms and will put you in a losing position.
In 1998 it proved to be a false alarm because the Greenspan Fed did a pirouette and flooded the system with liquidity.
Immediately, the probability that the signal was a false alarm went way, way down, O'Reilly said.
CNN: New research suggesting that the Earth may be warming a little more slowly than expected certainly does not mean climate change is a false alarm, experts say.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard also took to CNN after the incident to say said she was concerned about what might've happened to people on the islands if it hadn't been a false alarm.
Police cordoned off the scene as they investigated but later stood down the incident, which was a false alarm.
Sometimes, there are false alarms, such as a baby who is nursed for a shorter period of time than you expect, or a growing natural appetite.
The emergency alert about an incoming «ballistic missile threat» that jolted Hawaiians awake Saturday morning was a false alarm caused by someone hitting the «wrong button,» Gov. David Ige said.
The official Metal Gear Twitter account states that Metal Gear Solid V's recent nuclear disarmament was a false alarm.
The Home Office recently released national statistics that stated that 215,814 incidents attended by the fire service were false alarms.
The precipitation was a false alarm, and while taking in the panoramic view inside Aiken's structure, Julien and I pondered the enormity of the place and its rapidly growing reputation outside Brazil ---- only to be shushed by a vigilant attendant who reminded us we were disturbing the gnawing earth sounds miked some 650 feet below us.
It turned out to only be a false alarm of a potential gunman at North Broward Preparatory School, but the agony in students» voices was real.
There was a lot of FUD about goings on in South Korea, which turned out to be a false alarm regarding a potential ban.
He also told CBS News «we're taking a deep breath knowing that it was a false alarm,» but added on Twitter that the mistake was «totally inexcusable,» and the whole state had been terrified.
It was probably 30 minutes between the alert and when we knew it was a false alarm.»
«It was a false alarm based on human error,» Democratic Senator Brian Schatz said on Twitter, adding that the incident was «totally inexcusable.»
But the school already had a fire drill earlier in the day, leading some to think it was a false alarm.
At last finding that it was a false alarm, we return once more to our beds; but what good can the kind sleep of nature do to us, when interrupted by such dreams... I am not a superstitious man, but since our misfortunes, I am grown most timid, and am less disposed to treat the doctrine of omens with contempt.»
After the worldwide tsunami which occured in 2006 i think, there were many tsunami alerts which were issued AFTER an earthquake... all of them being false alarms as well... so when it comes to earthquakes... who is your authority once more?
Despite our rather one - sided views on the takeover news, our alarm bells could be false alarms.
He requested to go but it was a false alarm.
Whether this was because it lost skin contact and was a false alarm or Brody truly stopped breathing, I'll never know, but I am forever grateful for the peace of mind this little device brought me each and every night.
You might think you're in labour but it might be a false alarm.
It turned out to be a false alarm, but the true explanation was even more troublesome.
It didn't feel «clean» while rinsing, but that's a false alarm.
So that was a false alarm.
In some cases, the signs of labour will be a false alarm and your pregnancy will continue for a while longer.
The talk of suicide might have been a false alarm, or maybe the social workers dissuaded Cee Ci, who was bullied on the school bus, she said.
The threats, made at North Dakota State in Fargo and the University of Texas in Austin, have proven to be false alarms, but nevertheless forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of students, teachers and personnel.
A recent tip from NASA's Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office also proved to be a false alarm.
But as the news gathered momentum, it became clear to ATLAS researchers that it was a false alarm.
«We then look in the larger time interval to see whether there is preparation or whether it's a false alarm.»
Whereas technically the potential threats detected by the system in the past were not false positives — they did accurately pick up tiny, background amounts of DNA from organisms naturally present in the environment — in effect, they were false alarms because they signaled the potential occurrence of a terrorist attack when none had occurred.
Those readings also turned out to be a false alarm; BioWatch again had detected organisms naturally present in the environment.
The alert, like others issued by the system in the past decade, was ruled to be a false alarm.
The diarrhea - causing microbe Giardia intestinalis for a time seemed mitochondria - free, but on closer investigation, it and other suspects proved to be false alarms, containing shrunken versions of the organelles.