Sentence examples for warning set off from inspiring English sources

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The profit warning set off a 4percentt decline in share price.

The warning set off a sharp decline in its share price.

That warning set off a hubbub when Mr. Beck, a lawyer himself, decided to change the contracts with each of the pageant's state organizations just before last September's pageant.

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North Korea's launching on Friday, which defied weeks of international warnings, set off a flurry of negotiations among Security Council members on how to deal with the North's repeated provocative behavior.

WARNINGS OF TERRORISM -- A series of revelations about unheeded warnings set off furious demands in Congress for full disclosure of what Mr. Bush knew, and what the government knew, about terrorist threats prior to the Sept. 11 attacks.

During the interview the screen flashed continuously with dire warnings set off in quotation marks — "Obama would take this country to the far left"; "Obama would open the door to illegal immigrants"; "Obama would lower penalties for dangerous drug criminals"; "Obama's tax plan 'might trigger a stock market crash' " — apparently distilled from Mr. Morris's book.

This warning is set off when you ride too fast backward or you push the Segway beyond its limits, such as going over rough terrain, down a slope, or speeding up or slowing down too rapidly.[5] Slow down.

The tsunami warnings were set off by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile.

The British authorities to whom Mr. Geithner directed his concerns — Mervyn King and Paul Tucker, the governor and deputy governor, respectively, of the Bank of England — have testified that the New York Fed's warnings did not set off any alarms because they contained no allegations of wrongdoing and seemed to echo many concerns raised about technical difficulties in setting the rate.

The New York Times rang alarm bells, warning that HTML5 will set off a new wave of privacy problems.

The Cookoo offers a bidirectional "find" feature and a low-phone-battery warning; it can also set off your phone's camera by remote control, which is great for self-portraits.

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