The prime mission of the NWS is to give warning of tornadoes, hurricanes and other weather hazards.
Chief constables in England give warning that enforcing Mr Straw's curfews will require a lot of manpower.
But some tech veterans give warning that designing novel devices people feel comfortable wearing is an especially tricky task.
Hong Kong is not yet out of the woods, and not just because high interest rates give warning of pain to come.
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More advanced still are active-safety systems that progressively give warning of potential impacts, try to prevent them, and then try to mitigate their effects.
But talk is cheap: non-government organisations give warning that even development goals agreed by the G8 just three years ago at Gleneagles in Scotland appear to be slipping.
Newspaper editorials often give warning of the difficulties of assimilation.
Mr Roach, one of the first Wall Street economists to give warning last year of an impending recession, reckons that the American economy will get worse before it recovers.
The Broadcasting Code states that broadcasters must take precautions to maintain a low-level risk to viewers who have photosensitive epilepsy and should give warning if they do go ahead with such lighting.
At one end are those, including the OECD and the Bank for International Settlements, who give warning that a prolonged period of ultra-low interest rates risks inflation and resurgent risk-taking (see article).
This may or may not be a result of climate change, but experts give warning that if the predicted increase in temperatures does come about, if only by one or two degrees, the borderlands will become unsustainable.
In South Korea, both leading agencies did give fair warning of the severity of the banks' problems.
He is angry that the Bush administration singularly failed to consult him or give him warning of the decision.
But it would give a warning to investors in shares and houses that the good times cannot last forever.
Where the forecasters really fell over was in failing to give any warning of the Kobe earthquake in 1995.
Mr. Kogut said the department should give a warning first and then come back and issue a violation if it isn't corrected.
At present, no one can predict a tsunami, but on board the German research vessel Sonne, scientists are installing a system that will give people warning if disaster strikes.
Mr Metcalfe apologised to the council but said the driver told him his navigation system did not give any warning about the concrete tracks, which guide buses along parts of Cambridgeshire.
Compare that with the Trojan Horse strategies of rivals Claria (once known as Gator) and WhenU: Their software is often embedded in games or screen savers that many people download unknowingly. (The companies insist they give fair warning of what you're downloading in their click-on licenses.) "No need to be obnoxious, " says Keith Smith, 33, who founded 180 in 1999.
Communicating by banging hammers on the stone, the miners give as much warning as the unpredictable fuses allow.
Mr Pickles used the announcement to give a veiled warning to councils - which have a statutory duty to provide an efficient bin service - that do not have weekly collections.
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"We are quite certain that in future all stage hypnotists will give a proper warning of the dangers involved in volunteering to take part in a stage hypnosis show, " he said.
In the village of Aramon, also in the Gard region, locals have accused the authorities of failing to give them adequate warning of the impending floods already affecting the rest of the area.
Mr Clegg's friends argue that he did what he could with the information he had at the time i.e. he asked his then chief of staff Danny Alexander to confront Lord Rennard and give him a warning.
But if the code's been looked up many times already, the website will also give you a warning like in the screenshot after the break -- chances are the label's been duplicated, so potential buyers should always check this before handing the money over.
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Deutsche Telekom's abortive bid for Telecom Italia, and especially the failure of the German firm's boss, Ron Sommer, to give his partners any warning of his plans, soured the atmosphere.
But since these are linked by undersea cable to its mainland, they can only be placed around 50km from the shore, reducing the amount of advance warning they give of imminent waves.
However, the increasing numbers of mobile phones in use make it more likely that in crowded conditions such devices will give false alarms by warning you of the ringing of someone else's phone.
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"We put a motor in the cheek pad of the helmet so if you do not notice the object it will vibrate and give you a tactile warning that there's something to the right or left, " said Mr Moore.
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