Sentence examples for form of vigilance from inspiring English sources

Unilever's pension fund trustees have pioneered the most radical form of vigilance.

The villagers say the fires and the homemade bombs are a form of vigilance, a remembrance of the dead and a warning to the Nicaraguan National Guard to stay out.

Containment, as Louis Menand's excellent essay on George Kennan (out Monday in The New Yorker) makes plain, is a complicated and costly form of vigilance — politically, diplomatically, and militarily.

Therefore, female aggression may represent a form of vigilance, where aggressive females are exhibiting higher rates of maternal care.

Investigation of a door behind which a negative situation takes place may seem odd, but this also occurred in our previous study (Reimert et al. 2013) and may have been a way of the naive pigs to respond to a threatening or dangerous stimulus (Paul et al. 2005) or may have been a form of vigilance behavior (Welp et al. 2004).

Nathan Fox of the University of Maryland says that when the anima erupts in high-risk children, it often takes the form of excessive vigilance and misdirected attention.

For vervets and green monkeys, bipedalism may therefore function not only as a mobbing behaviour but also as a form of unspecific vigilance.

And when you urge "real vigilance," making clear you won't tolerate any form of vigilante violence or intimidation for purported "retaliation" might help reduce the likelihood of such senseless acts of violence.

In this context of aggressor avoidance, in line with Chance (1967) we can distinguish between two different forms of social vigilance: First, an individual may selectively monitor a particular, potentially dangerous group member by remaining visually oriented towards this animal to keep track of its further actions.

Unfortunately, worry can morph from that healthy, practical form of concern and vigilance to a preoccupation with perceived threats that are incredibly unlikely (e.g., nuclear war) or not particularly threatening (e.g., genetically modified foods).

A classical measure of vigilance is included in the form of a 150-item version of the Continuous Performance Test – Identical pairs (CPT) [ 19].