Sentence examples for alert to prepare from inspiring English sources

Valero and other refiners have put their workers on alert to prepare for a possible direct hit on operations along the Texas and Louisiana coasts.

When Sept. 11, 2001, dawned, the Northeast Air Defense Sector in Rome, N.Y., went on full alert — to prepare for a training exercise that envisioned a sneak attack by Russian planes flying over the North Pole to bomb the United States, a prospect that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara had dismissed as outdated in 1966.

Having been alerted to prepare for an immediate takeoff, Air Force One's pilot, Colonel Jim Swindal, had disconnected the air-conditioning unit, mounted on a mobile cart, that kept the plane cool on the ground.

Sharon's report prompted Bar-Lev to alert Adan to prepare to open the corridor with his division.

Believing that Puerto Rico would be the next British objective he decided to put the local militia on alert and to prepare the island's forts against any military action.

But the activation of the capital's dramatically expanded early warning alert this week to prepare people for two barely perceptible tremors has raised questions about whether the technology is being overused, and concerns it is provoking unnecessary panic or perhaps even alert fatigue.

A section of the bill claims that Pearl Harbor's commanders at the time, Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Gen. Walter C. Short, "were not provided necessary and critical intelligence that would have alerted them to prepare for the attack".

Despite suggestions that Congress was validating the theory, its defense authorization bill in 2000 included a provision that would absolve Admiral Husband Kimmel and General Walter Short, the military commanders at Pearl Harbor, of any blame for Japan's attack, declaring that they were not "provided necessary and critical intelligence that would have alerted them to prepare for the attack".

The impact of Rosita has alerted residents to prepare for any cyclones that may threaten the town in the future.

King received a warning order on 12 September alerting him to prepare for the capture of Kaiapit, and had access to detailed aerial photographs of the area.

The World Health Organisation declared a "six-level alert" so as to "prepare the world for an imminent attack".