Sentences with phrase «up call about»

My bedroom had a beach / ocean view and a subtle glow kind of wake - up call about 15 minutes before sunrise each morning.

I got a wake - up call about how over-extended I was.

The update comes in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook affair, which has served as a worldwide wake - up call about data privacy.

«We hope that legislators will see the efforts in Virginia as a wake - up call about how their laws can facilitate forced marriages of children,» said Jeanne Smoot, Tahirih's senior counsel for policy and strategy, according to the Washington Post.

Internet law professor Wendy Seltzer says this is a wake - up call about how much sensitive information we trail behind us in cyberspace.

A resounding post — Paris Agreement wake - up call about the urgency of the climate crisis that offers a range of practical solutions — and above all, hope.

It was a wake - up call about just how severely corrupted the whole climate discussion is.

Hurricane Sandy has proven to be a wake - up call about the potential dangers posed by climate change, and it's even possible — though by no means certain — that we won't just hit the snooze button and go back to sleep as the images of destruction in New York and New Jersey begin to fade.

Art schools and art departments got a wake - up call about safety in 1999, when the Environmental Protection Agency launched an initiative requiring studio classrooms and labs in colleges and universities to meet industry standards for environmental health and safety.

Do you need a wake up call about what things can cost?

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten weighed in, claiming that, «It's yet another wake - up call about this flawed logic that metrics are the be-all and the end - all.

Though geared towards adults, it's a great wake - up call about online privacy issues, and although they're ultimately pushing a paid product, they have some good free resources and privacy protection tools.

Exactly a decade after Al Gore delivered a blistering (and yes, incontrovertible) wake - up call about global warming and climate change in the Oscar - winning power - point documentary An Inconvenient Truth, he's back (not that he ever took a break) with this hopeful travelogue tracking his tireless globe - trotting crusade to help save the planet.

I had my real wake - up call about a year ago, when I finally had to realize that a damaged metabolism was causing me to gain even on a very low - calorie diet, that all the work I was putting into exercise never allowed me to gain muscle, that I was intermittently fighting hormonal breakouts, my fingernails were ragged, my eyelashes had started thinning, and that blood tests revealed serious dietary deficiencies despite the praise I was getting for my low cholesterol.

I received a wake up call about three years ago.

Another wake up call about ascorbic acid — it is synthesized from corn syrup.

But the study is enough of a wake - up call about the potential dark side of commonly prescribed painkillers that a further human - based study is badly needed.

«I think [the work] is a wake - up call about just how careful you have to be.»

«These findings should be a wake - up call about maternal nutrition in India,» said lead author Diane Coffey, a Ph.D. student at the Wilson School's Center for Population Research.

When a known asteroid passed within 28,000 kilometers of Earth on February 15, astronomers hoped it would serve as a wake - up call about the danger of meteorite impacts.

«Unless the establishment reacts to this wake - up call about how our country is run, how our economy is run, we are not going to address the discontent in England, Wales, Scotland and the whole of the United Kingdom.»

The sight of Europe asking for China to open its chequebook — and getting a dusty answer — was a highly instructive wake - up call about the new global realities.

The reason that the petition is getting so much media attention — along with almost a quarter million signatures in a mere seven days — is that, for many Americans, this is their first real wake - up call about Big Food.

Education in the U.S. needs a wake up call about physical education and nutrition in schools.

To recap here: Mendy's husband became seriously ill with high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer, which served as Mendy's wake - up call about his diet and about the foods eaten regularly by the students at Mendy's school.

As Coquelin has been first choice for the last month I think Wenger had that wake up call about a month ago

Burger King's hack is an important wake - up call about how vulnerable our personal devices have become.

If they still aren't ready to give you a commitment, before you leave the meeting ask when you can have a follow up call about the paperwork.

That means no lingering responsibility for repairs, no tax reprorations, and no follow - up calls about where to find the water shut - off valve.

Not exact matches

In an attempt to solve that problem, the Comcast - owned network announced on Monday that it is partnering with Tivo and a content - analytics company called RealityMine to try and come up with comprehensive data about who watches Olympic programming, when they watch it, and where.

T - Mobile now deploys a social media team of about 300 people (up from 23 four years ago) called the T - Force to address whatever issue is upsetting a customer.

Here's what you need to remember about cold - calling so you have an easier time when you pick up the phone.

But every single time I complain about being disrespected in this way he denies being annoyed, but admits to being stressed when he happens to pick up my call.

Forget so - called «brain training» programs, which science has recently largely discredited, and instead think about taking up a simple meditation practice.

(New York's regulations, for example, required me as a first - time patient to have about a 30 - second video call with the doctor who treated me before we hung up and continued via text.)

Cohodes then appeared on BNN last October and alleged management knew about the problem well before it was disclosed, and suggested a potential cover - up under something called Trillium.

In an appropriately titled study called Impact of Color in Marketing, researchers found that up to 90 % of snap judgments made about products can be based on color alone (depending on the product).

«A few decades ago, when someone picked up the phone to call their primary care physician, the physician wasn't worried about how to code the phone call,» Cape says.

What struck many about Salesforce's first quarter call in May was how often Benioff talked up Amazon (amzn), its chief executive officer Jeff Bezos, and Amazon Web Services.

When you are about to leave after having your car serviced, someone will say to you, «You are going to get a follow - up call tomorrow from corporate asking how well you were treated.

The incident was a major wake - up call, and inspired her to reevaluate her own notions about the importance of sleep.

This was news to me when I first heard about the so - called «diversity fellowship» programs that are popping up all over Wall Street these days and that offer signing bonuses to selected undergrads and MBA students that meet the banks» criteria for «diversity.»

«But then I did this thing called the Westinghouse Talent Search, now called the Intel Talent Search, where I spent about 2 years doing research on neuroscience lab and I ended up coming in third place in that nationally.»

Bertelsmann's RTL Group, which has interests in about 60 channels across Europe and Asia, racks up billions of digital video views each month after buying a stake in a web video network called BroadbandTV.

This summer, a group called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as ICANN, which manages administration of this root part of the Internet, opened up the domain - name registration process, and received about 2,000 applications for new suffixes, which sold for nearly $ 200,000 a pop.

His wife apparently laughed in her face and told her to call if she decided to grow up about it.

When we pursue real understanding, we can progress beyond knowledge about an issue like child hunger or poverty to being moved to address the core issues that result in so many children not having a home or bed or even a toy to call their own, who wake up or go to sleep hungry, insecure or fearing for their own safety.

In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Nicole Lapin talks about how you can save big money, simply by calling up your utility, phone and cable companies and asking them to give you a discount.

Whether it's understanding the types of emails clients are responding to, how reps are handling follow - up calls or what issues prospects care most about, the tool gives sales professionals real insights they can use to pivot on - the - fly.

Right now the «low and no» category, as the industry calls it, has a taste and image problem, and as a result makes up only about 2 % of overall beer consumption.