"The people of Venezuela have a seed of solidarity, which only needs something as big as this to wake it up and realise its potential, " La Hora quoted him as saying.
In its wake, it leaves a trail of mucky plaques where brain cells used to be.
And compromise brings two wonderful things in its wake: it reduces the quantity of legislation that can grind its way through the legislative mill, and it improves the quality.
Boeing's fears that it would be left in Airbus's wake also prompted it to attack on another front.
If it serves as a wake up call, it should be to the fact that the veneer of civilization can be terrifyingly thin.
"Take your head out of the sand and face up to reality because it will hit you between the eyes like a steam train if you don't wake up to it, " he said.
"Partly, this is a consequence of the Arab Spring and the power vacuums and ungoverned spaces that have sprung up in its wake, " it said.
Your kids wake up, it's like, oh Lord, your ear hurts -- just take an Anacin. (Laughter.) Just get to school, whatever you do.
"When you wake up, it feels like you are on the sea, " said Zhang Wei, a Guangzhou-based curator who was an overnight guest on a recent trip.
The general anesthetic has the effect of making patients feel well-rested when they wake up from it, said Dr. Hector Vila, chairman of the Ambulatory Surgery Committee for the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Logic and reality are not going to reach them, until they crash hard into it and wake up.
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Well, if you do the same thing he's going to be there in the morning when you wake up, and it's going to be great!
This computer has no internal power supply, but when a specially designed reader sends out a radio signal, a tiny antenna draws power from the wave and uses it to wake the computer up.
"Staff throughout Ulster Bank have worked strenuously to restore the bank's reputation, especially in the wake of the catastrophic IT malfunction last year - which created major difficulties for hundreds of thousands of customers, " he said.
Maybe now the folks that were never politically involved, but have been suddenly active via the Tea Party, will wake up and realize it boils down to having the right elected officials in place when the votes are being cast and counted.
Europe has a price on carbon, via cap and trade, but it burned more coal last year because its price on carbon is so low in the wake of the recession and because it needed coal to make up for the disruption of oil exports from Libya.
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He was focused on and talked a lot about it in the wake of that visit.
Usually it's no big deal -- you shake it off, wake up and move on.
He said it was a wake-up call "to give proper protection to our precious sea life".
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Shredding and soaking towns and cities clustered on the coast, it left a wake of destruction.
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Wraeclast took itself off to bed one balmy evening and, come morning, it failed to wake.
"I got the nurses to wake him up to hear it, " said Windsor.
While the plan never went through, it was a wake-up call for many Great Lakes officials and led to the rules being approved today.
It seemed to wake Villa up and Shorey burst forward to cross the ball in and a diving Delfouneso nodded into the top corner.
It'll wake up the iPod when you start your car again.
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In the wake of that vote, it was not clear whether Mr Basescu would proceed to a referendum or else resign and so trigger a fresh election.
"I just think that doing it in the wake of an old lady's death doesn't reflect terribly well on us, " he told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics.
Perhaps it can also wake up Cephalon's suddenly tired stock.
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