Others see Ghana's failure to qualify for the Nations Cup as a wake-up call.
He said it was a wake-up call "to give proper protection to our precious sea life".
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Anna Dixon, director of policy at the King's Fund, hopes it acts as a wake-up call.
"The Great Recession was a wake-up call" for regulators to act, Ms. Born said Tuesday.
"This is a wake-up call that we are losing biodiversity fast, " Dr Fisher said.
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No question, Apple's innovative design has sent a wake-up call to smartphone makers everywhere.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos, " he said the shooting was a wake-up call.
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The current controversy is a wake-up call to salvage what is good about stock options.
Nevertheless, most people need a wake-up call to finally move past denial and into action.
This admission that cheating wasn't that difficult should be a wake-up call: testing must improve.
But Dr Voight says the experience is a wake-up call to everyone working in the deep ocean.
"This should be a wake-up call to Google and Microsoft to educate their users, " said Ms Theriault.
Barker says this is a wake-up call to the international community, which was once welcomed in Afghanistan.
Maggie Atkinson, the Children's Commissioner for England, described the inquiry as "a wake-up call for us all".
Radiohead's actions are a wake-up call which we should all welcome and respond to with creativity and energy.
Thomas just got a wake-up call that all is not fine and he needs to pay more attention.
Welsh Conservative education spokesperson Paul Davies said the "damning figures" were a wake-up call to the assembly government.
IR If Napster is a wake-up call for the record companies, Internet portals should be in a muck sweat.
The market drop should be a wake-up call to readjust and realign your portfolio, not to radically transform it.
Is there a wake-up call, as some people have said, for the party?
Or will they acknowledge that Massachusetts is a wake-up call, as Indiana Sen.
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An anxious debate followed: was this the random act of a single region, or a wake-up call from Beijing?
The behavior of the Egyptian mob and military junta alike served as a wake-up call for two key constituencies.
"This is a wake-up call for many reasons, " said Dr. Ken Duckworth of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
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Some viewers have criticized it as political manipulation, others as a wake-up call.
For the United States, it was a wake-up call that the march of communism was not the only global threat.
"It was obviously a bit of a wake-up call for us and we just have to overcome that, " Gibbs commented.
But this sad story should be a wake-up call for radio hosts around the world to follow the Roy D.
The recent decline in growth "is a wake-up call for increasing the pace of actions and reforms, " the survey says.
That served as a wake-up call to Moyes' side, who surged forward and came within a whisker of taking the lead.
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