Sentence examples for system went off from inspiring English sources

When this happened our alerts system went off and we had a phone meeting.

"The alarm system went off, but as an alarms expert, he knew he had time to get out," Mr. Geiger said.

The enhanced ground proximity warning system went off in the plane's cockpit and "the pilots to respond immediately by executing the appropriate manoeuvre," Air France added.

In "Reckless Endangerment", Gretchen Morgenson, a veteran New York Times reporter, and Joshua Rosner, a consultant, provide the best account yet of how this system went off the rails.

The FAA reports include 19 reported cases of sensor trouble on Boeing aircraft, such as an American Airlines flight last year that declared a midflight emergency when the plane's stall-warning system went off, despite normal airspeed.

Mr. Carter's resistance to the mayor's mandate has become so well known around Condé Nast that when the sprinkler system went off last year, the rumor mill immediately concluded that it was activated during another act of rebellion.

That triggers her fight-or-flight response, which affects the way the hormone receptors in her brain develop, and as she grows up her stress-regulation system goes off track.

But once they start to lose games, fray and unravel, it's as if an automatic five-alarm internal response system goes off, and the Yankees retrench and react.

Severing ties with the centralized power system — going off the grid — might be a dream of survivalists and some consumers, but the reality is difficult to achieve.

As Razor 1 was crossing over the courtyard, both "green unit" flight deck control systems went off line.

But the new system almost immediately went off the rails, as the prosecution of Brian G. Nichols for killing a judge and three others in an Atlanta courthouse in 2005 drained much of the new office's budget.