"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.
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.
Logic and reality are not going to reach them, until they crash hard into it and wake up.
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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.
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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"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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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!
Perhaps it can also wake up Cephalon's suddenly tired stock.
The result is so conscious of its contribution to the moral debate that it forgets to wake up as a movie, and the shots of a ruined Berlin are a perfunctory joke.
"This is not some gentle wake-up call - it's the same global alarm that's been screaming at us since 2008, " said Hannah Stoddart, Oxfam's head of economic justice policy, regarding the FAO data.
Each bullet is a wake-up call that it may be a game for the fans that have other jobs, but this is his job and therefore it is his business, not his sport.
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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.
At the Open Society Institute in Brussels, though, director Heather Grabbe called it a "wake-up call to European leaders to look up from the endless euro negotiations and remember what the project is ultimately all about - peace as well as prosperity".
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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.
Anna Dixon, director of policy at the King's Fund, hopes it acts as a wake-up call.
"It is a real wake-up call that so many Americans have engaged in this dangerous behaviour, " she said.
Dr. NICHOLL: Yes, and I think it's a wake-up call really to the American Medical Association and the state medical boards.
The feedback the company is getting from users shows it is helping them wake up in a good mood, he adds.
But it might be a wake up call to the MLS itself, which made the adolescent mistake of wanting everything yesterday.
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The report is intended to act as a wake-up call, but it's also sparked a debate over the direction of conservation strategy.
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