First, the fact that a host nation agrees to have U.S. forces stationed on its soil is a signal to the world that it will also allow U.S. troops to operate on their soil, if necessary.
But Cher recently indicated that the company could at some point decide to buy an operating system of its own, perhaps a signal to Google that it had better watch its step.
In a series of measures, some long promised, the government gave its clearest signal in a long while that it is serious about getting out of the economy's way.
"In so doing, the Senate sent a strong signal of its intention to work in a constructive and bipartisan spirit to preserve and enhance our national security, " Clinton said.
How can it be that UBS and others, mind you, have not gotten organized a risk control system in its computers that would signal instantly a dangerously risky trade that has to be reversed?
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The Heathrow Express cancelled its services due to a signal failure at Hayes and Harlington.
With Italian interest rates at all-time highs and near breaking point the ECB has dropped its base rate as a signal that it will come to the rescue of the European economy.
One of the dogs raised its head as if on signal, listened a minute with its ears up, and then put its head back down between its paws.
We tested the device indoors -- located near a window, it picked up a GPS signal easily, and transmitted its location to a map within the iOS app even as we walked 100 or so feet away, past several walls.
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And in the current issue of Applied Physics Letters, a group led by Haroun Ahmed at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory in Britain reports another vital step, a single-electron transistor that, for the first time, amplifies its input signal (though only by a factor of 3.7, several hundred times more weakly than a conventional transistor does).
Once plugged into a computer, the device sends out a signal pinpointing its location and the thief's IP address.
The easy solution of buying off Cyprus with cheap loans to fill the holes in its banks and repay its debt would have sent a signal that other countries could escape the consequences of unwise policies.
Mobilcom, which charges a flat rate of DM0.19 a minute for long-distance calls in Germany (a third of Deutsche Telekom's peak rate), is so popular that most customers trying to reach its network find only a busy signal.
His government's decision to freeze tax transfers to the PA in response to the agreement with Hamas has sent a strong signal that Israel is withdrawing its acceptance of the PA as a credible peace partner and now views it as a terrorist entity.
Finally, a voice over the speaker announced that the team received its expected signal, and the news was greeted with a round of applause from the operators in mission control.
With Windows 8, Microsoft is sending a clear signal that its brand value proposition has shifted.
The absence of a Pakistani delegation from this week's Bonn conference was a powerful signal in its own right.
But China's deployment of a carrier would send a powerful signal that its naval interests are no longer confined mainly to coastal defence.
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The key reason is that by having you come back, the company gets to send a powerful signal to its current employees about how great it is there.
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Buying back shares and raising its quarterly dividend 25% is a signal that Merrill's management feels confident about growth targets, though analysts said it could also indicate that Merrill sees those actions as better alternatives than a big acquisition.
"We are very clear that a newly-elected government has to send a credible signal about its plans to eliminate the great bulk of that fiscal deficit over the lifetime of the parliament and to start immediately in 2010, " he said.
Kevin Bong, a Wisconsin-based security researcher and penetration tester, has developed what he calls the Mini Pwner, a spy computer smaller than a smartphone designed to be inconspicuously plugged into an ethernet port to gain access to a corporate network, feeding information back to a nearby hacker over its wifi signal.
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And its day seems almost over, when a signal comes over the radio.
The moment a broadcaster stops transmitting a signal, it loses its cable channel.
The OBV has moved back above its WMA and a break through resistance will signal a move to lower yields.
What if these storms are so brutal they rarely subside long enough for a radio signal to find its way out?
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If the government slashes its budget, it will send a bad signal to other private sector firms that might be asked to partner with the military they could see such partnerships as too financially risky.
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At this juncture, we had to switch sources in order to get native 4K. This was served up by an ASUS gaming PC containing a Radeon HD 7970 -- AMD's flagship graphics card that can throw a 4K signal out of its HDMI 1.4 port.
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Unlike ivi, which distributed grabbed local TV signals in New York, Seattle and other markets and routed them through its servers to subscribers, Aereo at least makes the technological pretense that its subscribers are receiving the signal from a tiny individual antenna equivalent to the rabbit ears that used to sit atop every TV set.
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