Sentences with phrase «which was a false alarm»

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He was also charged accused of making a false alarm, which carries a felony charge.
Are you aware of the November 2010 declaration to the Los Angeles County Superior Court former LA Deputy District Attorney Donald H. Steier which included the alarming statement that as many as ONE HALF of abuse accusations against Catholic clergy may be «entirely false» or «greatly exaggerated»?
Bernstein said Strike Guard has represented the system to the park district as «a new technology, which is supposed to limit positives, or false alarms, and it's cheaper to maintain and operate.»
NIPT looks at fetal DNA in the mother's blood and has been shown to be more accurate than traditional predecessors, which means fewer false alarms that trigger avoidable additional testing.
While this has never happened to me, some parents have complained that the pad tends to be oversensitive, which means they get many false alarms.
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Other types of non-hospital grade monitors rely on movement to measure the baby's breathing, which can cause false alarms since newborns do not breathe in regular, steady patterns, even when they are breathing normally.
Nuclear experts are warning, using some of their most urgent language since Trump took office, that Hawaii's false alarm, in which state agencies alerted locals to a nonexistent missile attack, underscores a growing risk of unintended nuclear war with North Korea.
This keeps you from getting false alarms, which can be a nuisance.
Because a quake's strength isn't clear at first rupture, emergency response managers face a choice when issuing warnings: Issue alerts early and often (left), which could provide as much as 48 seconds of warning that light shaking might occur but risk false alarms; or wait to issue alerts until the size of the quake is better known (right) but risk the warnings arriving too late — providing an 8 - second warning in this hypothetical case.
In consequence, this population will typically be of later spectral types, which presents lower fractions of binary systems (Lada 2006); hence the impact of false alarms from faint EBs is less for deeper samples.
At a basic, subconscious level, men treat romance like a house fire, they think «it's better to risk a false alarm than to fail picking up on heat» which obviously isn't always ideal.
Indeed this was the case with Kings College in London, which has worked successfully for many years alongside its fire alarm maintenance provider to try and eliminate the false alarm problems, but more of that later.
The policy sets out a distinction between what happens at the premises, the point at which the alarm signal is considered a «false alarm», if there is no fire; and at the fire brigade where the signal becomes an «unwanted fire signal».
If the Localism Bill, which is making its way through Parliament now, is passed it will give Fire and Rescue Authorities, after local consultation, the right if they so choose to start sending out bills for false alarm attendance to persistent offenders.
One solution to tackle false alarms is to install a polycarbonate cover which will easily retrofit over any existing call points, providing instant protection.
«It may be that drivers are getting too many false alarms, which could make them tune out the warnings or turn them off completely.
I've had a rare «false» low tire pressure alarm, but guys at Discount Tire say that's not unusual for any TPMS during times of temp swings, which is when they've happened.
But predicting whether a dip in prices like we saw last week is the prelude to a meltdown or a false alarm from which the market will recover and march to new gains is virtually impossible.
But if you know that Fluffy has been trying to beat her high - jump record, some systems will allow you to arm your system «stay», which will turn off motion detectors in order to prevent a pet - caused false alarm.
My concerns are that the headline («A Pandemic That Wasn't...») & structure of this article, (which leads with a «false alarm» paragraph) could leave casual readers with a sense that avian flu pandemic concerns have been overblown.
The political «solution» is: Unsupported claims of large aerosol increases which allows the fiction of the a high climate sensitivity to be maintained, leading to alarming and false predictions of catastropic future warming.
All of which shows that Carrington's claim that «it was climate scientists themselves who sounded the alarm» is as false as the original claims about the greening of Greenland.
The «false - alarm probability» is 5.1 %, which is so close to the standard cutoff of 5 %, that one should consider the result to be meaningful (but not ironclad) evidence of a genuine pattern, a dip during the 1990s followed by recent increase.
If forecasters were to achieve their goals, it would mean that they could issue hurricane watches and warnings with greater lead time, provide emergency management officials with greater specificity regarding where a storm is going to go and how strong it will be when it gets there, and help avoid false alarms and needless evacuations, which cost millions in lost revenue for coastal communities.
This would not trip on false alarms in which the threat was given in good faith for the safety of others.
(3) conveys, in a manner reasonably likely to alarm the person receiving the report, a false report, which is known by the conveyor to be false, that another person has suffered death or serious bodily injury;
The Nest Protect, for example, uses a photoelectric split - spectrum sensor that is considered superior to the ionization sensor used in many older devices and which is more prone to false alarms.
Pap tests have a false negative rate of about 10 to 20 percent of all negative results, which might sound like a cause for alarm — but in practice, among those who receive regular Pap testing, cellular abnormalities that are missed once are, eventually, usually caught in time to be easily treated.
«It's important to note that many systems you find aren't specifically set up to monitor pets, which can cause false alarms and a lot of unnecessary worry.
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