Sentence examples for warnings set off from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

That decline set off warnings of severe economic effects if the stock market continued to fall, which it did not.

The tsunami set off warnings across the Pacific Ocean, and waves sent boats crashing into one another and demolished docks on the U.S. West Coast.