Sadly as much as I would like to think that the measures that the government and banks have implemented will help our economy, I believe that a recession is unavoidable as the wake up call has been profound.
The concerns in the U.S. were not helped by the wake-up call from California on Friday that severe problems related to record government debt loads, and the need for austerity, are not confined to Europe.
The Flash Crash of 2010 was the wake-up call for ordinary investors that these new markets.
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Alan Brill, senior managing director for Kroll Advisory Solutions, is optimistic that the wake-up call will be received promptly.
As she battles with depression, Noch Noch is on a quest to be the wake-up call for others in similar plights in her blog, Be Me.
For Arianna Huffington, the wake-up call came in 2007.
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Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Paul Burstow MP, said the figures were a wake up call for the government.
The post-2008 economy was the ultimate wake-up call most people were unprepared to face and this created the new realities that we have all been forced to adjust to, both at work and in our daily lives.
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The first is, you phrased the phrase "wake-up call" about the election last night.
Describing the report as a "wake up call for the new government", Plaid Cymru Education Spokesperson Simon Thomas called for the reintroduction of literacy and numeracy test by September 2011.
The president of the Royal College of Physicians, Sir Richard Thompson, said the findings were a wake-up call to the government to take stronger action on public health.
And primed for a renaissance under the gentle wake-up call of French entrepreneur Arnaud de Lummen.
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In his late 80s, at age 89, Bob Hope got the ultimate wake-up call.
President Bush said Friday that the Riyadh attacks gave many people around the world a "wake-up call" that the war on terror continues.
But Dr Voight says the experience is a wake-up call to everyone working in the deep ocean.
Even beyond the world of autos, the driverless car should be a wake-up call about the pace of disruptive technological change that looms for every industry.
Welsh Conservative education spokesperson Paul Davies said the "damning figures" were a wake-up call to the assembly government.
Even beyond the world of autos, the Google driverless car should be a wake-up call about the pace of disruptive technological change that looms for every industry.
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Dr Donal O'Donoghue, national clinical director for Kidney Care, described the report as a "wake-up call" for everyone involved in the fight against kidney disease.
Chairman Richard Scudamore told a sports industry event that an incident involving goalkeeper Petr Cech in 2006, which saw the Czech Republic international fracture his skull, had been a wake up call for the football authorities.
Even recognising that, the official response to Mr Singh's wake-up call from the governments of the affected Indian states has been dismal.
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.
The ECB's wake-up call is likely to come when its statistics department discovers that credit growth in the euro area has contracted for the first time since the formation of the European Monetary Union, says Cailloux.
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the results in Louisiana were a "wake-up call" for the party.
Initially, I took baby steps toward the early morning wake-up call.
Public Health England, a new division of the Department of Health that will come into being in April 2013 along with the NHS organisational reforms, called the report a wake-up call.
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