Sentence examples similar to keep from alarming from inspiring English sources

We don't know how many times nuclear warning systems operated amazingly well to keep from raising false alarms — we only know when they didn't.

From the gangsters' mapping the neighborhood and casing the joint to their using props as mundane as an ordinary umbrella to keep from setting off a sensitive alarm, this is galvanic cinema.

Ride-out is waiting until struck before retaliating, to keep from responding to a false alarm.

His earliest compositions were far from alarming.

A second report, also kept from the public, was equally alarming.

During the terrible months Lee had been in western Virginia, mountains had broken the winds of contention and distance had kept from him the worst alarms.

It had alarmed, I'd done all the stuff to cancel the alarm, but because it couldn't reset itself it then kept alarming.

And instead the legislation should focus on reporting procedures that would keep false alarms from snowballing into panic.

A rear guard was left behind to watch over hostages and keep the alarm from being raised until they believed the escapees were clear of the prison, when they returned to their cells.

In one case on Thursday night, Mr. Bush's language was designed to keep conservatives from becoming alarmed over one area of policy where he is directly breaking with his party's past.

Make sure when you wake up keep your alarm away from bed so you have to get up to turn it off.