Sentence examples for take alarm from inspiring English sources

The German foreign office thus did not take alarm at the alliance Bismarck had struggled so long to prevent.

But if you would have held your glass like this" — he picked up his glass by the stem — "the regulars wouldn't take alarm.

Few in Europe are conversant with the African Nations Championship (CHAN) and many might take alarm at the prospect of anything resembling the biennial Africa Cup of Nations, which tends to be maligned for extracting big-name players from their clubs at a critical time in the season.

"Not once in three months!" "But you knew," she said, taking alarm.

In the mid-2000s, Taiwan's government, for example, took alarm at the number of foreign brides coming into the country.

But vested interests took alarm, and the House of Lords rejected the bill on December 17 after the King had made it known that he would consider as an enemy anyone who voted for it.

When Cyril, who had been authorized to execute the sentence upon Nestorius, produced a string of provocative anathemas for him to subscribe to or face excommunication, Nestorius and his allies took alarm, and he persuaded the emperor Theodosius to convene a general church council.

Mr. K's financial generosity would probably have been even greater if his late father-a Boston merchant, who was chairman of the board of Filene's department store-had not taken alarm years ago and tied up his son's inheritance in a trust fund, so that he could not give it all away to the ballet.

In 1382, when Bernabò contracted a military alliance with the French prince Louis of Anjou and planned to marry his daughter Lucia to Louis's son, Gian Galeazzo took alarm, viewing the marriage as an enhancement of Bernabò's position and a threat to his own.

"When I was in kindergarten, I started taking alarm clocks apart," he says.

When the Continentals on the mainland noticed this, they took alarm, and the militia were called out.