| These results are a wake-up call for a Government more interested in changing how it looks, rather than changing how it works, he said. |
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| Belinda was surprised to find that she had managed to drop off when a mid-morning wake-up call woke her. |
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| Before drifting off to sleep, Horatio mentally placed a wake-up call and his mind neared consciousness. |
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| County received an early wake-up call when a Rangers forward got through to a one-on-one with County keeper Adam Hornby, who made a fine save. |
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| And I think that Republicans did have a wake-up call, and I think they're starting to react to it. |
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| The case may turn out to be one of those terrible incidents that provide a wake-up call and a catalyst for positive change. |
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| If the new National Defense Strategy isn't a sufficient wake-up call, what's it going to take? |
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| This was the wake-up call that Newry needed and in the 24th minute they almost got the equaliser when Curran's cross was met by Maguire. |
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| Joseph woke to the sound of a horn bellowing a wake-up call in the distance. |
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| He wanted to roll over and go back to sleep but his mother's singing was meant as a wake-up call. |
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| Well, we all know that Kelly Ripa has an early wake-up call every single morning, but she was out pretty late last night for a good cause. |
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| I think ultimately this has served as a real wake-up call to the investment community and to the average investor. |
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| Eventually Arthur says he got a couple of hours sleep, on the promise of a wake-up call from Brown. |
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| This wake-up call, though, doesn't just apply to the Democrats and the mainstream media. |
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| If this isn't a wake-up call for everybody who thinks they are committed to freedom and democracy, I don't know what will be. |
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| A food log can be a wake-up call to improve habits we didn't even know needed fixing. |
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| Many investors, however, take it upon themselves to give sleepy management a wake-up call. |
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| These figures are nothing short of staggering and should serve as a wake-up call. |
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| This is a wake-up call for all historians, libraries, museums and archives to protect and preserve their material by microfilming them. |
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| A Brain scientist has teamed up with electronics wizards to design a system for giving dozy drivers a wake-up call. |
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| And just in case you drift a little too deeply into dreamland, the hotel offers a guaranteed wake-up call or that night is free. |
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| This was the wake-up call for the Castledermot side and they began to dominate with Brendan Kelly and Brian Byrne coming out on top in mid-field. |
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| The thwack should have been an early wake-up call but the Minstermen continued to stumble and fumble thereafter. |
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| The next morning, drumming snipe provide my wake-up call, and, in soft sunshine, I wander down to the shore. |
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| Before going into the bathroom, I waited for the other shoe to drop, my wake-up call. |
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| But in 1992, Airbus executives received an unwelcome wake-up call. |
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| She requests a wake-up call but wakes before the designated time. |
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| I think the biggest problem which we face is the next pandemic of influenza, and I think in a sense the SARS has given us a wake-up call for that. |
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| The Prison Reform Trust said today that overcrowding is a problem in three quarters of jails and the figures should act as a wake-up call to the government. |
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| Women, in particular, should take note of the Census results because there's a screamingly loud wake-up call in there for them too. |
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| He's got a record as long as your arm and I think a few months in prison would be the wake-up call he needs. |
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| Those involved in the slaughter of wild horses and burros have blood on their hands, and what has transpired is a wake-up call to the Congress. |
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| The fingernail-sized zebra mussel, native to the Caspian Sea region, was the wake-up call. |
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| It's also a wake-up call, a reality check from which you emerge with a reassuring sense of integrity. |
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| They have given us an important wake-up call to look at these issues more seriously. |
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| This should serve as a chilling wake-up call that disasters can wreak havoc on citizens and on economies just as much as terrorism and wars. |
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| A wake-up call is therefore essential at all levels if there is still to be a chance of making the Lisbon strategy a success. |
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| The East Timor case served as a wake-up call and a trigger to most organizations to try to address their weaknesses in this area. |
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| The election of the BNP councillors and the BBC documentary is hopefully a wake-up call to the fact we need some open and honest debate in this city. |
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| Additionally, the guest may deactivate or activate the wake-up call themselves using their room telephone. |
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| He also highlighted the achievements from the past two weeks signaling a wake-up call rather than failure. |
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| But on the other hand, I look at that today, it was a wake-up call for me to attend to my culture, I needed to attend to what I missed. |
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| The crisis has therefore acted as a wake-up call for Europe to respond to the changing global order. |
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| But a report due to be published this week may serve as a wake-up call to those who believe Edinburgh to be a fully paid-up member of the world's top locations. |
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| Many people experience a shocking wake-up call when they find themselves in hospital and realise how much their misuse of substances has damaged their health. |
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| Speaking on the final day of the conference, I gave a statement that was intended as a wake-up call to do something more for the victims. |
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| We sometimes get so entrenched in our own processes and programs that we need a wake-up call. |
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| This is very far from the agreed target, and is a wake-up call for the urgency of providing good quality education for all. |
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| Still, the results of the Commonwealth Fund survey should serve as a resounding wake-up call. |
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| What sparked such fine songcraft is the sudden wake-up call of The Beatles, who were taking America by storm. |
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| A new CDC report serves as a wake-up call for the importance of childhood vaccines. |
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| And if Voss is discouraged by the situation in Washington, it should be a wake-up call for all of us. |
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| It needs to be a wake-up call about a broken institution that's letting down the American people. |
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| After that wake-up call, we cruise alertly through a terraced landscape of peach and apple orchards. |
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| It could be a sobering wake-up call for someone so young and so unversed in the often treacherous ways of big business and high society. |
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| For Democrats, this resounding defeat just might be the wake-up call their big and small donors need to start donating again. |
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| This attack should be a wake-up call for those of us who remember the more hopeful, if also frightening days of the mid-nineties. |
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| The global financial crisis has been a wake-up call to the international community to reform the institutions of global governance, and a wake-up call that our system of global governance today is in need of radical reform. |
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| I hope it's a wake-up call and I hope the lads can re-focus and get back to form this weekend. |
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| Take this as a wake-up call if you have not looked into the up and coming Police and Crime Commissioner elections in November. |
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| However, we have just had a necessary wake-up call that all is not as secure as we believed. |
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| For these people the disaster over the Mojave Desert is a sobering wake-up call. |
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| The recent test of an anti-satellite weapon should serve as a wake-up call in this regard and remind us of the urgency of the matter and our responsibility to act. |
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| You can request reception to activate a wake-up call for you. |
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| The recent events are a wake-up call for everyone, to realize this. |
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| With the drop in U. S. soybean stocks below the 200 -million bushel marker, it should serve as a wake-up call that 2008 acres need to be bought to cure tight U. S. supplies. |
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| In a wake-up call two developments occurred to Kim Jong Il and his people. |
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| It's been a real wake-up call for the grain markets. |
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| If you want to predict trends in America, whether in politics or products, World Cup mania should serve as a wake-up call. |
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| In the 1970s the plight of the Third World coffee farmer was the first wake-up call that modern agribusiness was transforming subsistence farmers into wage slaves. |
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| For me, as a pure movie fan, the exploitation genre was just a welcome wake-up call, a chance to retrace the past and reconnect with an important lost artifact. |
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| But the baseball fans of Washington received their joyful, long-awaited wake-up call this week when the newest mutation of the team took the field in Florida. |
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| But that wine, a balanced blend of supple fruit, focused acidity and sweet spice, was my wake-up call. |
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| And both were a wake-up call to a mighty power to stir itself to action. |
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| So no ducking under the duvet, then, when your little monster threatens to waken the neighbours, if not the dead, with his wee-small-hours wake-up call. |
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| For you, Saturn trining neptune is a wake-up call to document ideas, first, and then punt them out into the universe. |
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| But the latest fire should serve as yet another wake-up call to the authorities, who appear to have returned to their slumbers since the last fire. |
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| It should have made for a tense and nervy finish but the goal provided the wake-up call as City switched back on the concentration button and defended resolutely thereafter. |
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| The wake-up call has already sounded, based on projects that enjoy wide support, and which are pragmatic and fit the needs of Europeans, who alone will enable Europe to shake off its current torpor. |
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| Jaffe attributes the long wake-up call to the Army's penchant for big-ticket equipment designed for big wars. |
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| Bed check on Friday was later, as was the wake-up call today, to keep players' body clocks from adjusting to the trip east. |
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| By contrast, the rumbustious battles and plunderings of Don Quixote came as a wake-up call. |
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| In reality, it was the wake-up call that the Americans needed. Benyam Astorga got them off the mark two minutes later, and he and Alan exchanged further goals before the hooter. |
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| That is why this report is so very apropos, and it comes as a wake-up call for consciences in this matter, which, indeed, requires from all of us resolute and determined ethical behaviour. |
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| For those serving with the 1st Battalion, the Scots Guards, there was also a distinctly Scottish wake-up call, with a piper blasting out We Wish You A Merry Christmas. |
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| The economic slowdown also services as a wake-up call to owners of designated Class B and C properties. |
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| We've made a good start in the league but this was a wake-up call. |
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| The rate at which voters were last night signing campaigning Labour MP Tom Watson's online petition should serve as a wake-up call for complacent Cameron. |
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| The September 11 terrorist attacks should have been a wake-up call for businesses to reevaluate their insurance coverage. |
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| A CITY household got an early wake-up call when a car collided with the side of their home early today. |
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| This was a wake-up call, prompting an investigation to assess flyovers for any engineering flaws. |
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| The efficiency of an overnight stay characterised by trouser press, expense-accounted minibar and a sharp wake-up call may be just the tonic from Monday to Friday. |
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| Bornn received a wake-up call after last season when a fellow coach met him at a clinic and asked Bornn what his vision was for Saugus football. |
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| The body of 61-year-old Bobby Farrell was discovered in St Petersburg after he failed to answer a wake-up call. |
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| The recent deaths should serve as a wake-up call to others at risk. |
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| Some Starbucks card holders and mobile app users recently received a disturbing wake-up call, and it wasn't a result of their caramel macchiatos. |
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| Maybe the volcanic eruption will serve as a wake-up call to such companies that they need to modernise their risk management. |
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| Sylvie Vartan's new album opens with the jaunty wake-up call Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille, the Jacques Dutronc hit that uninspired radio presenters still regularly roll out on early-morning shows in France. |
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| World Fisheries Day is a wake-up call, imploring us to ensure fisheries are here tomorrow, so they can continue to sustain a way of life and provide a nutritional source of protein to us all. |
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| Treat yourself to a luxurious wake-up call for midlife skin, based on the latest de-aging technology, and rediscover the beauty of a youthful complexion. |
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| Amy Williams invites friends to a sleepover, ready to give them the ultimate Christmas Day wake-up call and ply them with the ultimate in stocking-filler gadgets. |
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| But, when it came to thinking up one of the catchiest choruses of the 90s, all it took was one late night wake-up call for lead singer Saffron Sprackling. |
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