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For example, in India, Modi’s disastrous banknote demonetization in November 2016 should have been enough to alert observers.
But providing incentives for governments to maintain such forces at a high level of alert and setting standards for equipment, training, and professionalism is something the UN can and should do.
An artificial-intelligence-enhanced security system can spot criminal suspects as they cycle beside a lake or purchase dumplings from a street vendor, and immediately alert the police.
And our servicemen and women based in Djibouti remain on high alert against piracy, protecting ships from around the world.
Ordinary citizens should become more alert to the signs of radicalization, and more educated on how to respond.
Instead of demanding a return to a time before terrorism, we must become more alert to the risks it poses – not only to our safety, but also to our values and commitment to the rule of law – and do our part to minimize them.
In his bitter resignation letter, the general accused Rajapaksa of “ unnecessarily placing Indian troops on high alert” and failing to “win the peace in spite of the fact that the army under my leadership won the war.”
The message was that Israel must remain mobilized and alert in a hostile environment, and that its survival depends on the cohesion of its citizens’ army, as well as on solidarity with those sent into battle.
Kidney for SaleNEW HAVEN – World Kidney Day, to be held on March 12, is part of a global health campaign meant to alert us to the impact of kidney disease.
Even Defense Minister Ehud Barak, usually a coolly rational thinker, chose Yad Mordechai, a Kibbutz named after Mordechai Anilewitz, the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, to alert world opinion against “Holocaust deniers, first and foremost the Iranian president, who calls for the destruction of the Jewish people.”
By not sharing their food with intestinal parasites, they, too, would become more alert, stay longer in school, and grow up to be more productive adults – another cause that needs much more public attention.
These weapons can be put on alert in a way that would be highly visible to US satellites and the global media.
They do not have to detonate a nuclear weapon, but only alert adversaries to the dramatic increase in the political stakes and dangers of a showdown.
But we must become more alert to how developments in a wide range of fields – from finance to digital technologies and climate change – can elude the governance capacities of national and international institutions.
To be sure, AI systems that are linked to the Internet and furnished with personalized apps could inform and entertain a lonely person, as well as monitor their vital signs and alert physicians or family members when necessary.
When used properly, an Interpol alert is a critical tool for fighting global crime.
The subject of an Interpol alert can face lengthy periods in detention while challenging extradition.
Even when an alert is removed from Interpol’s databases, you can continue to face the threat of arrest when traveling, or be refused visas in a never-ending cycle of persecution.
And police departments around the world should exercise more caution before acting on an alert they receive through Interpol.
And, in mid-November, London’s Sunday Times reported that Israel put defenses around its Dimona nuclear reactor on “red alert” 30 times, as worries grew that Syria would avenge Israel’s September attack on a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
For the pessimists (or realists, depending on your perspective), Israel must remain on maximum alert to minimize the risks that it faces.
In the face of this trend, human rights veterans can hardly be blamed for going on the alert.
With 23,000 nuclear weapons (equivalent to 150,000 Hiroshimas) still in existence, more than 7,000 of them actively deployed, and more than 2,000 still on dangerously high launch-on-warning alert, we cannot assume that our luck will hold indefinitely.
President Barack Obama came to office alert to all these threats and determined, as no other US president – and almost no other world leader – has been, to eliminate them.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service, for example, uses a GPS tracking system to alert boaters on Florida’s inland waterways to potential collisions with manatees.
Each new terror alert or high-tech innovation, it seems, makes new demands on our liberty in the name of security.
It is not too extreme to put this into context: billions of dollars in profit now depend on insiders like Chertoff maintaining US society in a state of overhyped alert that demands increasingly costly technology.
They can also use the app to alert the nearest Romanian consular mission in case of emergency, as well as quickly find out what to do in case of accident, illness, or the loss of documents.
Would someone heading abroad for work use an app that would alert them to signs that they may be about to be trafficked?
To preserve the Atlantic partnership great effort is needed to ensure that policymakers -- on both sides -- are alert to the dangers.
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