On Saturday, Manuel Valls, the French Prime Minister, declared, "It is a war against terrorism, against jihad, against radical Islam, against everything that is aimed at breaking fraternity, freedom, solidarity," thereby engaging in a bit of alarming, if understandable, rhetorical escalation.
"It caused quite a bit of alarm among neighbors, and I was right there in the audience, listening to the experts, trying to get a handle on what was going on in my own community," Mr. Treves said.
Detective Chief Inspector John Luther Idris Elbaa), of the London Metropolitan Police, made his debut last year in a six-part mini-series written by Neil Cross, and the audience's first sight of him was a bit alarming.
It is, he said, as overdone as the euphoria of 2008, but also a bit alarming.
"But they came back from the lab containing 9,780 mg/kg of total petroleum hydrocarbons, which was a bit alarming.
While there's no official confirmation from Urban Outfitters of a bed bug problem, these reports are a bit alarming.
Here, the bacterial species, in order according to the number of alarms triggered, were K. pneumoniae (13 alarms), E. cloacae (3 alarms), P. mirabilis (3 alarms), E. coli (2 alarms), E. aerogenes (2 alarms), Salmonella spp. (2 alarms), P. aeruginosa (1 alarms), Citrobacter koseri (1 alarm), M. morganii (1 alarm), S. marcescens (1 alarm), S. epidermidis (1 alarm), and S. agalactiae (1 alarm).
Alarms are the number of alarms during the intervention session.
This is a rational reaction, even if it looks a bit alarming.
When you watch these old movies with kids it's a little bit alarming.
Not only that, I woke up without an alarm -- which was, in itself, a bit alarming.
