A whistle-blower, literally speaking, is someone who spots a criminal robbing a bank and blows a whistle, alerting the police.
What quickly becomes apparent is that - in true caring-sharing style - lookouts are discreetly posted and whistle to alert shopkeepers and unwary tokers that the police, in groups of about eight officers, are making their patrols.
The doorman blew a whistle, which alerted an English-speaking nurse to escort me to the waiting room.
PointCast customers want simple content like sports scores, news headlines, with a system equipped with bells and whistles to alert them to incoming information".
A half-hour later, whistles sounded, alerting people to the approach of the security forces.
Even as Mr. Obama tried to calm public fears about the N.S.A. programs, Mr. Snowden defended his claim to be a whistle-blower alerting the world to intelligence excesses, and he denied accusations that he had betrayed the United States.
A conservative Catholic group in Virginia, the Cardinal Newman Society, has played an influential role as a whistle-blower, alerting bishops when they find a university stepping out of line.
A whistle-blower alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission SECC) to suspicions about Madoff's firm as early as 1999, and again six years later.
The absence of whistle-blowers alerting investors is one of the stunning features of the various scandals now enveloping corporate America.
They suspected that the most socially adept animals would be first to alert their cliques to danger, but in fact, unpopular marmots whistled alarm calls most frequently, the team reports online this month in Behavioral Ecology.
