Those auto-de-feing laptops in 2006 were not the first signal of problems with lithium-ion batteries.
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It was the first signal that Labour was re-engaging with the world and rejecting Bennite socialism in one country.
The visual cortex is divided into some two dozen areas, but the most thoroughly investigated are those that handle the incoming signal first.
The pull-back into the 38.2% retracement zone from the highs on November 1 was our first signal that things were beginning to change again.
This was the first time that the PBOC had cut bank reserve levels in three years, the first signal that monetary policy in China is changing.
Back then many of us gathered with Beagle's mastermind, Prof Colin Pillinger, to wait to hear the first signal that the spacecraft had touched down safely.
The third tip to reading body language like a pro is to notice the first signal, but wait for confirming cues before assigning meaning to what you see.
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He kept winning and became something bigger than who he was, something inspiring, transformative, almost mythic, which was probably the first signal it all could eventually go wrong.
The mission team knows that when it gets that first signal to say the rover has entered the planet's atmosphere, the vehicle will in reality have already landed or been destroyed some seven minutes previously.
When the industry gave out awards for new technology that year, the signal took first prize.
The sentence marks the first important signal from Romania to the European Union that it is serious about trying to tackle corruption.
Even if you're calling someone next door, the cellular signal must first travel to the local cell tower before being routed to your neighbor's phone.
While Saddam probably got this pathetic signal the first time, he surely has got it now: The Clinton Administration is interested in suing for peace, if only Iraq will modulate its behavior with respect to the cease-fire resolutions.
The statement is the first public signal from the government that it will take concrete steps in response to reports in state-run media, though it was unclear from the report just how it would heighten oversight of the industry.
Last week a Chinese regulator said that it would heighten supervision over Apple and other electronics companies' consumer-rights practices, in the first public signal from the government that it would take concrete steps in response to the media reports.
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The iMSO-104 from Oscium is the first mixed-signal oscilloscope that leverages Apple's ubiquitous iOS devices.
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Skomal said they were "absolutely surprised" when they first received a signal from the tagged sharks coming from the tropical waters of the western Atlantic, in the vicinity of the Caribbean and Bahamas.
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That means it is still impossible to send a packet of calls as photons from New York to Chicago, route some locally and send the rest on to Los Angeles--without first converting the signal into electrons.
They were the first to rally and signal an economic and market recovery.
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First, it may signal that growth for their business is tapering off or may be under pressure from new entrants.
First, this may signal a potential change in growth strategy in China.
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Another oft-overlooked signal of approachability on first impact is the smile.
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Another mote inside that range picks up the first one's signal and grabs its data, adding readings of its own and passing the package along to a third mote.
With the moving averages first showing the buy signal in our strategy and with the volume increasing at about the same time, the confirmation is clear as our ADX chart rises above 20: traders should have been in on this stock.
It was the signal for the Blades' first real spell of pressure in the game and brought an equaliser seven minutes before the interval.
According to Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper, the Consumer Federation of Kenya (Cofek) said the first notice about the analogue signal switch-off, planned for 31 December 2012, was given on 7 December 2012.
With the DUP seeking to capture the unionist centre-ground, Tom Elliot's assertion that he wouldn't serve under Sinn Fein as deputy first minister sounded like another signal that the UUP is shifting into TUV territory (in fact the mathematical possibility of this outcome appears so remote as to be nigh on impossible).
Early on, it did not help that her first policy pronouncements were to signal a retreat from Kevin Rudd's mining super profits tax, which made her look weak, and to ditch her predecessor's "Big Australia" policy, which went down well with the tabloids but seemed indicative of a lack of national ambition.
Because of a bad signal, the Pope's first call didn't come through, so the pontiff left a message.
Generally, the male releases his gametes first, which acts as a signal to any females nearby.
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