Sentences with phrase «wakeup call about»

«But it was also a wakeup call about making sure I know what is covered.»

This is one reason I am always grateful for the Goldman Environmental Prize, which serves as an annual wakeup call about the seriousness of the struggle to defend life on Earth.

But unlike earlier waves of feminist theology, in which appeals to women's experience were a wakeup call about women's marginalization, today feminist theologians turn to women's narratives as a source of embodied knowledge.

For many users, it's been an abrupt wakeup call about how much data they've been sharing with the company and the third - party apps that it hosts.

Although P&G said it isn't cutting back on its Facebook spending overall, that was still a rather large wakeup call about the marketability of Facebook's advertising model.

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The 2013 attack on the Bowman Dam in Rye Brook did not cause any lasting damage, but served as another wakeup call to state and federal security agencies about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to cyberattack.

The Trump presidency was a big wakeup call for cookbook author Julia Turshen, and now she's all about using food as a form of political activism.

I have observed and liked your sense of style for a while but have not read much of your blog till now and am pretty disappointed to discover how much of spoilt brat you are — wakeup call — there are millions of women in the world who can't totter about in sky high heels because they don't have the luxury of being driven about in private towncars so they barely touch the pavement — or afford to supplement their couple of pairs of ballet flats and 1 pair of heels with a pair of mens shoes just in case they feel like being edgy — and the addition of the term «jappy» in the piece takes this already derogatory post to next level racist — seriously WTF?

If you read Mitch's recent post about flying with a baby, you know that we had a ridiculously early wakeup call the first day of our trip, and that all in, it took us roughly 12 hours to get from Chicago to this beach in Marina del Ray, California.

Policy makers got a wakeup call today about the importance of paying attention to the needs of rural schools.

Especially in the wake of the Hachette situation, which is a * huge * wakeup call for us writers about the value of owning our intellectual property.

Amazon executive Russell Grandinetti gave the most succinct comment about the new world that publishers find themselves in: a wakeup call that should be posted in giant letters in every publishing house and agency.

Jeremy Greenfield, the author of the article, suggests that this should be a wakeup call for publishers, but offers no suggestions for what publishers should do about it.

(And if that isn't a wakeup call, then think about how many years you've been paying interest and multiply the years by your annual interest amount.

«This has to be a wakeup call to all employers to think about whether we can do things differently to support our colleagues,» said BVA Senior Vice President Gudrun Ravetz, BVSc.

[10:31 a.m. Updated In a conversation about the storm with Malcolm Bowman of Stony Brook late last night, we mused on whether Irene's impact would serve as a wakeup call prompting the city, which will face rising damage risk as sea levels rise in this century, to seriously consider storm surge barriers like those on the Thames.

For more information about real options analysis, see Tom Copeland and Vladimir Antikarov, Real Options, Revised Edition: A Practitioner's Guide, Texere, 2003; and Glenn S. Daily and Laurence J. Kotlikoff, «Decision Making Under Conditions of Uncertainty: A (Second) Wakeup Call for the Financial Planning Profession,» 2006 (www.glenndaily.com/documents/wakeupcall.pdf)