Sentences with phrase «wakeup call of»

(MCT)-- A few years ago I had the wakeup call of my life when I realized many of the foods I thought were healthy (by Food Industry standards) were actually highly processed.

The wakeup call of a heart attack in your relationship might be the catalyst, the very incentive you need to realize that you need some help.

«I think this was a valuable period, because, we had increasingly frequent and severe flooding in our low lying coastal areas, and it's a wakeup call of what we are headed into,» Wanless said.

Scrat gets the wakeup call of his life when he buries his prized acorn in a once - dormant volcano that rumbles back to life.

As my site nears its 3rd birthday, it's a wakeup call of sorts for me to not forget where I came from.

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«These findings provide the world with a wakeup call on forests,» Alessandro Baccini, WHRC scientist and lead author of the report, said in a statement.

Next the moderator presented a picture of the new product along with a description: The handheld device called a Shake - Up could be could be placed underneath a pillow and programmed to vibrate at the wakeup time.

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.

The Facebook - Cambridge fiasco is an important wakeup call, but it is likely only the beginning of a thorough examination of tech companies» widespread collection and possibly illegal use of user data.

As entrepreneurs, we often lose ourselves in the pursuit of more, and Hal͛s story is a much needed wakeup call.

It is not just a Catholic problem but shoud be a wakeup call to all people of faith.

Well if it's a wakeup call from a higher being a big part of his message seems to be he doesn't like churches.

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.

With the bright, tangy flavor of tomatillo and peppers, it's a not - too - hot (and low sodium) wakeup call to your tastebuds.

Bird songs instead of drills plunging into LA cement are my wakeup call.

NASCAR's approach to marketing has evolved since 2011, when it received a wakeup call in the form of relatively unknown Trevor Bayne pulling off an upset and winning the Daytona 500.

None of our players showed any passion whatsoever and we deserved the 4 goal loss; nice wakeup call for us before Leicester and Man City now duke it out and we have Bournemouth.

Ken Sanderson, chief executive of Families Need Fathers, commented, «The results of this survey should be a wakeup call for employers and the Government that much more needs to be done to ensure fathers receive the support they need when family breakdown occurs.

«That, to me, was a real wakeup call,» Bartosch says of JJ and Annie, who are starting seventh and ninth grades this fall.

«I'm hoping this study is a wakeup call that families of all races and ethnicities need early counseling to lead healthier lives,» said Perrin, a pediatrician and professor at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

In her cartoons, Kirby makes light of all kinds of parenting situations, from Frozen - inspired early wakeup calls, to something she describes as «The Shitty Guilt Fairy,» a mythical creature that hangs around just to make you feel terrible at all your parenting decisions (it's like she knows my life!).

It helps to lull a baby to sleep, which can make middle - of - the - night wakeup calls easier to handle.

«This is a wakeup call for every dad in America,» said the group's chairman, Joseph Califano, a former secretary of health, education and welfare.

«I hope what we're seeing here is an extraordinary wakeup call for him because, to be quite frank with you, to think that they would move forward on this kind of a bill with no clear understanding of what the costs are or what the true impact is across this country.

Since they are not faceless writers, their articles were well - intentioned and wakeup calls on security situation in the country though some of the assumptions on the person of the NSA were on wrong premises.

This should be a wakeup call for the state legislature to enact much needed reform of the Sullivan Act and make New York the 44th state with a right to carry concealed firearms for personal protection law.»

In a news release, Governor Andrew Cuomo seemed to respond directly to US Attorney Bharara stating, «The convictions of former Speaker Silver and former Majority Leader Skelos should be a wakeup call for the Legislature and it must stop standing in the way of needed reforms.»

The Percoco conviction should serve as a wakeup call to the governor and the legislature that they must act to curb corruption at all levels of government, even in the offices of the governor himself.

I sincerely hope that this will serve as a wakeup call to all of us, to government, to the law enforcement agencies, the courts, to wake up to our duties and responsibilities in order to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future,» he said.

«The avoidable massacre and silence of the Federal Government over what took place in Benue, Taraba and Southern Kaduna is a wakeup call to all Nigerians to stand up and speak the truth like our former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

Tabone was redistricted from the ED's where he did extremely well, but instead of crying foul he looks at the results of LATFOR as more of a wakeup call for civic - minded citizens.

The news that the Empire State will lose two more seats in the US House of Representatives should be an urgent wakeup call to all New Yorkers, particularly our elected officials.

Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, the think - tank organization, issued a «wakeup call» to public schools in the region to develop different ways of better preparing graduates for college.

«The justice system worked today... The convictions of former Speaker Silver and former Majority Leader Skelos should be a wakeup call for the Legislature and it must stop standing in the way of needed reforms,» he said in a statement.

«The convictions of former Speaker Silver and former Majority Leader Skelos should be a wakeup call for the Legislature and it must stop standing in the way of needed reforms,» he added.

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.

«And I believe so much in New York, and I believe that we're a real, progressive bastion here, and I have to say that for me, the election of Donald Trump was a real wakeup call, as it was a wakeup call for women across the country, that if we don't like the direction our government is going in, we have to step up and we have to get involved like never before.»

«This should serve as a wakeup call,» says metallurgist Srikumar Banerjee, chair of the Atomic Energy Commission in Mumbai.

«I think this is a wakeup call for understanding the power of neighborhoods to contribute to the crime and behavior problems that we see in our society,» she says.

The findings are «sort of a wakeup call,» says Gordon McInnes, MD, a professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Glasgow, in the U.K., who wrote an editorial accompanying the study, which was published in the European Heart Journal.

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.

Publishers Weekly recently said, «Men's Health writer O'Connell (LL Cool J's Platinum Workout) delivers a smart, personally inspired health wakeup call in no uncertain terms: our excessive consumption of carbohydrates is killing us and wrecking our health - care system.»

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.

our flight to the island landed at sunset so we were eager to explore the island first thing in the morning.if you have followed some of my previous travel posts, you know that i love shooting at the crack of dawn... okay i don't love the wakeup call, but the results are amazing!

If you tranquilize an enemy and place a plushie in front of their face, they'll get a nice wakeup call: love struck by the cute puppy toy and frozen in place.

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

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.

We want yesterday's event to work as a wakeup call to drivers — children want their roads to be safe and it's our privilege, at webuyanycar, com, to help the voices of over 100,000 children be heard.»

They see low graduation rates among boys of color as a wakeup call for improving school climates for all students,» said Ama Nyamekye, the Executive Director of E4E - LA and former educator who worked in both public schools and prisons.