Sentence examples for set off a warning from inspiring English sources

That would set off a warning light.

Much like a burglar in a heist film, any animal breaking its beam set off a warning.

The system can also compare the speed limit to the driver's actual speed, and set off a warning if the driver is speeding.

The Navy references the case of a company of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, who, after a Taliban ambush in the summer of 2006, said in hindsight that their intuitions had set off a warning.

Peak flows in the cautionary zone and the need to use rescue inhalers more often signal worsening asthma -- and should set off a warning to put the child's customized action plan into play.

The tightness of the labor market and its duration set off a warning that New Jersey employers may soon begin to find it so difficult to fill high-technology, high-skill jobs, and will begin toning down their ambitions to expand.

Finally, between speeds of 50 and 112 m.p.h., Attention Assist monitors your steering movements and sets off a warning if it suspects you're getting drowsy.

Some systems that detect vehicles, where others detect large animals and sets off a warning system to drivers of vehicles alerting them that an animal is on or near the highway ahead of time.

TRACKING down a problem that sets off a warning-light in your car can be frustrating.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A powerful earthquake early Saturday set off a tsunami warning for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but the alert was canceled after no damaging waves were generated.

The mourning was punctuated by another strong aftershock near Japan's Pacific coast, which briefly set off a tsunami warning, killed a 16-year-old girl and knocked out cooling at the severely damaged Fukushima Daiichi power station for almost an hour, underscoring the vulnerability of the plant's reactors to continuing seismic activity.