Sentence examples for act as warning from inspiring English sources

Decreasing need for calcium substitution would act as warning sign, triggering investigation of potential physiological abnormalities e.g. androgen deficiency, and to consider initiation of bone protective measures to counter further bone loss.

These bright patterns are believed to act as warning colours to ward off predators.

However Amnesty International said the new sales figures should act as warning to BAE's shareholders.

For example it has been suggested that frills might act as warning signals to, or a defence against, predators.

While it may sound premature or even churlish to do so, we offer some strategic cues that could act as warning signs for investors that Apple's growth is slowing.

Since the discovery, California officials have taken measures to control the outbreak at Pinto Lake, but the discovery illustrates how marine mammals like sea otters act as warning signals for near-shore ecosystems, Miller said.

And they still act as warnings that today's censorious critics of everything from Oliver Stone films to dung art may have reason to feel sheepish tomorrow.

Some of these use him as the subject, and are meant to act as warnings for him to change his 'bad habits'.

Dogs can also act as "early warning" to detect an approaching epileptic seizure or sniff out disease.

I remember feeling no great joy at the problems faced by David Mellor and Tim Yeo as they admitted affairs – but these should have acted as warnings to me.

Once these would have acted as warnings about the sort of people they might meet but now, because we're so bothered about terrifying children, we have watered them down".