The phrase "arouse alarm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation or action that causes concern or fear among people.
Example: "The sudden increase in crime rates in the neighborhood has begun to arouse alarm among the residents."
Alternatives: "raise concern" or "trigger anxiety".
Closer to home, Rewilding Britain claims that enlightened Continentals treat the species that arouse alarm here as "familiar and rarely controversial".
The plea agreement the senator signed said he had "engaged in conduct which I knew or should have known tended to arouse alarm or resentment".
Disorderly conduct, the misdemeanor to which Craig pleaded guilty, requires proof of "offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous or noisy conduct" or "offensive, obscene, or abusive language tending reasonably to arouse alarm, anger or resentment".
Two months after his arrest, the senator submitted a plea by mail, signing a statement that said he "engaged in conduct which I knew or should have known tended to arouse alarm or resentment".
In an e-mail, an Istithmar spokesman said, "CFIUS was contacted by Istithmar's U.S. counsel about this transaction and it was determined that approval was not required". But Tony Fratto, a Treasury Department spokesman, said late yesterday, "I cannot confirm that the CFIUS was contacted by parties to that transaction". The takeover shouldn't arouse alarm, several security experts said.
Arousing alarm is easy, teaching is tough.
It is, however, the Cooper stage show which arouses alarm.
The change aroused alarm within the agency, and concerns from some outside experts.
When he was sworn in last month, the Arab world's biggest country gained an unabashed Islamist as its leader for the first time, arousing alarm here and abroad.
Mr. Wu acknowledged that the new rules had aroused alarm in Asia, and the United States, because they could be interpreted as a power grab by China.
After Osborne, Stoppard, Penelope Lively, and others sold their papers to Texas, the mass departure aroused alarm in Britain — a 2005 headline in the London Times proclaimed, "WRITERS UNITE TO FIGHT FLIGHT OF LITERARY PAPERS TO U.S".
