Sentence examples for go on alert from inspiring English sources

Where war planning has changed in the past few years is that there is conventional warning of North Korean attack, for instance, a missile being readied for launch that precipitates units to go on alert, aircraft to take off, fingers to move closer to triggers.

Her first reaction is usually to go on alert and be ready to defend herself.

So if at any point the ground beneath you is even quivering, go on high alert.

And the North Korean military has also reportedly not gone on alert or done anything menacing.

After being injected, they were immunologically primed: their cellular response systems went on alert.

Israel again went on alert in 1998, when Mr. Hussein ordered United Nations inspectors out of Iraq.

Security forces went on alert in Bombay, New Delhi, Gujarat and other possibly volatile locations, but there were no reports of violence tonight.

Abortion rights groups went on alert after the administration announced last week that it would extend the federal Child Health Insurance Program to fetuses.

But with the Oak Island attacks now pointing to a possible trend, North Carolina media went on alert for more.

Hezbollah's deputy head, Nabil Qaouk, said Friday that the military exercise was a sign of Israel's aggressive intentions and that Hezbollah had gone on alert.

The Israeli police went on alert today after receiving information pointing to a planned terrorist attack, setting up checkpoints on roads leading to and from the West Bank.