Sentence examples for in response to a warning from inspiring English sources

At the moment, around a thousand nuclear weapons are still on a hair-trigger alert; as they were during the Cold War, they are ready to be launched in minutes in response to a warning of imminent attack.

The comments were in response to a warning from the CBI president, Paul Drechsler, who said business did not need a running commentary but was looking for clarity and "above all, a plan".

In response to a warning of a potential terrorist attack on the Statue of Liberty, the National Park Service activated a face recognition surveillance system yesterday that takes pictures of visitors and compares them with a database of terror suspects.

A children's hospital in Montreal was flooded with 4,500 phone calls from parents in response to a warning that a physician there had performed thousands of surgeries while infected with the AIDS virus.

People calling local police appear to be doing so in response to a "warning" sign that has been circulating on Facebook.

Recent surveys show that although awareness of heat wave warnings is high, less than 50% of vulnerable populations change their behavior in response to a warning (Abrahamson et al. 2008; Sheridan 2007).

The only brain scans that have been done are of recreational ecstasy users, whose drugs may be contaminated and who have probably taken other substances, too.The death in 1995 of Leah Betts after taking ecstasy, from drinking too much water in response to a campaign warning ravers of the danger of dehydration, had prevented rational debate or scientific advance.

International Business Machines ibm rose 1.6% after the computer maker authorized a buyback of as much as $3.5 billion of its stock in response to a profit warning that sent its shares tumbling.

Given that it is highly unlikely that either country would launch a first strike against the other, it's more likely that a technical glitch or human error would cause an accidental ICBM launch in response to a false warning.

The crew shut down engine number 2 in response to a fire warning, and with engine number 1 surging and producing little power, the aircraft was unable to gain altitude or speed.

Third, the U.S. must work with Russia to explore mutual steps to allow our two countries to take our weapons off hair-trigger alert to lessen the danger that they are inadvertently fired in response to a false warning of attack by either side.