Sentences with phrase «wakeup call last»

We had a real wakeup call last year when the then office manager forgot to use an updated database.

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Apple's recent earnings announcement last week that revenue was $ 1.4 billion below expectations, and the drop in iPhone shipments compared to last year was certainly a wakeup call for the company and its investors.

i already mentioned it here lest week before the last game — Wishere move - a wakeup call.

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.

After the weeks - long checkout, the probe will be put back into hibernation for the last time in August, with a wakeup call set for December.

In fact, since the pace of the enrollment decline has slackened in the charter era (2,000 of 9,000 schools — 22 percent — have closed in the last 20 years) one might argue that charters have served as a wakeup call for Catholics.

[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.

«The hurricanes in the Caribbean last summer were a wakeup call,» says Martha Honey, executive director of the Center for Responsible Travel, an organization that advocates for sustainable tourism.

Perhaps the wakeup call here should be the * lack * of cooling in the last 10 years given all the things above, rather than the «lack» of warming.

The last UN climate change report should have been a wakeup call for everyone, even slumbering believers, that climate change is the preeminent crisis we face as well as the most daunting one we have ever faced.