Short ring fingers did not necessarily mean that boys would go on to have heart attacks, but should alert their parents to do what they can to lessen the risk.
In fact, I think what military commanders are required to tell people what it will take to do something, alert them to the risks that are out there, and I think that dialogue is very, very important.
So the information that came out Sunday was an alert to -- again, just to do that: to make people aware of and alert to that information, not to dissuade them from travel there in the beginning.
Everybody's alert, everybody wants to do their best for him.
"I've issued instructions (to the defense ministry) to do everything to establish an alert, monitoring stance, " Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa said on the way into the session on Monday.
Still, even in cases where the alert itself has nothing to do with the resolution of a kidnapping, it can help draw more attention to the case from law enforcement.
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To do that, teachers have to become alert to positive behavior, praising students for specific actions while ignoring misbehavior, which is generally more noticeable.
There's a third alert, though it has nothing to do with the sleep-monitoring functions.
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We did everything we knew we could do to try to alert the people that a fire was coming their way.
And the government should do more to publicize and alert us about Internet scams, fraud, and fake work-at-home schemes by creating a Virtual Work Hotline.
All that Obama has managed to do with this pick is alert the world that John McCain is right: He does have a glaring weakness in foreign policy.
Kingson had to be alert again to claw away an Ebanks-Blake effort at his near post but the Ghana keeper could do little to keep out Doyle.
Anecdotally, parents say it has to do with the game's languid pace and the fact that other sports do a better job forcing kids to stay alert.
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Both alert you to law changes and probe your finances with helpful questions: Do you want to report recapture of a clean fuel vehicle credit?
"The Muslim community has been cooperating with authorities for a number of years and people do the right thing when there is reason to alert authorities, " Syed said, adding that he was speaking for the imam, who wished to remain anonymous.
In addition to knowing that homeland security professionals at all levels are working to keep our communities safe, we ask individual Americans to do a few additional things during this time of heightened alert.
But I can alert you that when we do get under way, make sure you listen to TMS at lunchtime as having looked back on 2008 in yesterday's lunch interval, they will be "delving into Old Aggers' Almanac" (as producer Adam Mountford puts it) and looking ahead to 2009 - with the World Twenty20, the Ashes, more IPL and more fun with Sir Allen Stanford to look forward to.
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Every port and airport was placed on full alert, and it seemed safe to assume that if Harling left the country he did not do so by any means of public transportation, unless under a convincing and ingenious disguise.
When a 9-1-1 call is received reporting someone unconscious, unresponsive and likely needing CPR, the local communications center will dispatch public safety resources as they do today, but software running in the center will also send this alert to nearby citizen rescuers.
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But that won't alert you to complaints that didn't lead to discipline, and the group can't do anything but take away the CFP mark.
Do we really want something originally used for talking with people in real-time to alert those at our next meeting we are running late because of road congestion?
The Web admin can decide to send a text message back to the sender to verify the information, send out a blast alert to large numbers of people or post the information onto a Web page with location information from Google Maps (or do all three).
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