They wake up now to hear with indifference or disappointment or, worse still, anger the news of what their government is doing.
Now I wake up feeling great and have energy for the entire day.
The question is when will the United States government wake up to these new realities now unfolding in Latin America.
Despite its inherent illogic, the notion that last week's massive, cascading electrical blackout was a "wake-up" call seems now to have become as much a part of the political landscape as has the effort to assign blame for this costly man-made disaster.
And we will wake up a week or two weeks from now with what we talked about a minute ago -- the need to get credit flowing to small businesses.
In my own opinion, I truly believe that the country has had a huge wake-up call as regards to the have-now pay later attitude that many people have adopted as the norm.
That having been said, we will wake up next week, next month, several months from now with many critical and important issues.
But if ever there has been a wake-up call delivered to our administrators that we are now in overkill, this past month has been it.
It is a wonderful feeling to wake up on the first day, to realize that we are now living in a new home in a new city in a new country, and to wonder what experiences lie ahead.
Speaking to the BBC shortly afterwards, Mr Brahimi said he hoped the Moscow announcements would be a wake-up call for all concerned, and that they would now think only of the Syrian people and how Syria could be saved.
It may be a while before we wake up as a nation, but the time for your reinvention is right now.
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The fact that such an idea is even up for consideration should be a major wake-up call -- a reminder that climate change is real and happening now.
The inquiry conducted by Lord Justice Leveson, who presided over eight months of hearings examining the culture, practice and ethics of the press, was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking by journalists at the now-defunct News of the World newspaper.
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Now I would love to just go sleep one night and not wake up.
Now the cross-bench peer says that the public needs to wake up to the importance of these elections.
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The body was set up by the media giant in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at its now-defunct News of the World title.
The NCMSC was set up by the media giant in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at its now-defunct News of the World title.
But now with them in the last 16, Sampson believes people would begin to wake up and smell the coffee.
" And I never say--even if I wake up at three in the morning--"There's nothing good on TV right now.
"America has been a very greedy, give-me-now country for so long, and I think it's a wake-up call for everybody that we can live differently, " said Beth Diaz.
Another theory is that the clash was meant to be a kind of wake-up call from Pyongyang - trying to grab the attention of the U.S. now that its preoccupation with Yugoslavia might be ending.
The contractors are currently granted immunity from prosecution under Iraqi law by Order 17 of the Coalition Provisional Authority - the now-defunct interim body set up by the US-led coalition in the wake of the fall of Saddam Hussein.
And so my job right now is just to make sure that everybody in the Gulf understands this is what I wake up to in the morning and this is what I go to bed at night thinking about.
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Their wake-up call was the conviction on corruption charges of Adrian Nastase, a former prime minister, who is now in jail.
The national disaster agency said it could take up to six months to build temporary housing for the 60, 000 who are now homeless in the wake of the storm.
The militants' movements highlight what one senior European defense official called a "wake-up call" for the West: While Mali has stabilized, French and U.S. intelligence reports now show militants from Mali have been able to cross the region's porous borders and establish a tentative new base in southwest Libya.
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