Sentence examples for given the alarm from inspiring English sources

And, given the alarm in some quarters over the mounting budget deficit, these two giants and their vast obligations are likely to remain conveniently — and controversially — off the federal books.

Given the alarming trends in declining soil fertility, a very strong case can be made that one of the most "environmentally friendly" interventions in SSA is to triple or quadruple fertilizer use over the very low (Asia uses 20 times more fertilizer per hectare of arable land and Latin America 10 times more) levels of current use (Figure 1).

One of the suitors gave the alarm.

Soon afterwards the servant, succeeding in freeing herself, ran downstairs and gave the alarm.

Two young men ran nearly a mile to give the alarm in town.

On Sunday at 4.30am people gave the alarm, shouting 'Allah u akbar (God is great)'.

Certain scholars were instructed to "give the alarm," a ceremony, by the way, to be performed quietly and without sensation.

You can give the alarm a range of times to wake you, and it will set off the alarm when you are sleeping lightly.

He chose a stout, smiling woman, standing alone on deck, as his witness and counted on her to give the alarm.

A cop approaches, on his beat, and Frankie gives the alarm, not with a yell or a whistle but with a song — his high, effortless tone ringing off the walls of the deserted street.

Describing how he first gave the alarm over an improvised satellite phone when the power failed after the landslide, Mr. Vargas said, "We talked about possibly 30, 50 victims".