Sentence examples for try to alert from inspiring English sources

I will try to alert you when I think there's an especially large chance for a polling mistake, as I did before Alabama and Mississippi.

Fearing that he was being abruptly transferred to a detention center in Texas or Louisiana, like many detainees with families in New York City, Mr. Wu asked other inmates to try to alert his fiancée.

Women try to alert the authorities, try to tell them an ex-husband is calling and threatening them, but the authorities don't listen and those women end up dead.

About 10 employees were in the headquarters at the time of the shooting, and many fled, with one running two blocks to the Capitol to try to alert security, Ms. Lee said.

In the first few days after the collapse the group burned tyres, honked horns and set off dynamite to try to alert people above that they were alive, according to a letter Raul Bustos, 40, wrote to his wife.

The Electoral Commission has been running campaigns for more than a year to try to alert those hard-to-reach demographics – students, black and minority ethnic and working-class voters, and women – who will have been a large part of the third of the electorate who didn't vote in 2010.

UNHCR officials have tried to alert restless refugees in Bangladesh of the dangers.

He spent years trying to alert authorities of foul play, his calls falling on deaf ears.

As much as government tries to alert the populace, in the end, common sense rules.

We're just trying to alert people that these are still prohibited items".

Jennie Page, the dome's first chief executive, had tried to alert him to the danger.