Sentence examples for raise the alert level from inspiring English sources

Bob Herbert's column should raise the alert level of every single American.

"If it becomes more common, we'd convene a task force to raise the alert level".

As many Americans reacted with concern and sometimes confusion to the elevated risk alert issued last Friday, several officials defended the decision to raise the alert level.

"If we were certain this was real, I think you'd see us raise the alert level, as we've done in the past," a senior law enforcement official said.

The C.D.C. did not raise the alert level in the United States, which is officially at zero because there have been no human cases of H5N1 avian flu here as there have been in Asia and Egypt.

Asked if military action against Iraq would lead the government to raise the alert level back to "high risk," Mr. Ridge replied, "I think it certainly would be incumbent on us to take into consideration military involvement as we determine the level of protection we need for homeland security -- we'd be foolish if we didn't".

Tom Ridge, who had served as Secretary of Homeland Security in the Bush-Cheney Administration, admitted in writing that he had been pressured to raise the alert levels to bolster Bush's popularity as the 2004 presidential election approached.

But they said the case was not a significant factor in raising the alert level.

This was before the World Health Organization had raised the alert level of the fast-spreading swine flu to Phase 5.

On June 11th, the World Health Organization raised the alert level to six, meaning that a full-blown global pandemic had begun.

State volcanologists raised the alert level on the cone-shaped, 2,460m Mayon volcano, 210 miles south of the capital, Manila.