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When Austrian conservatives in January started negotiations with Haider’s party on a new coalition to take power after many years of complacent conservative/socialist governments, alarm bells rang across Europe.
The alarm bells have already rung.
This flood of money rang alarm bells for Li and President Xi Jinping when they took office in early 2013.
Given China’s mushrooming military budget and secretiveness, that assertiveness has set off alarm bells among the other countries bordering the South China Sea.
To anyone who has ever counseled survivors of childhood sexual abuse, this should set off alarm bells: the most common ploy of sexual predators is to portray the abuse as a “game.”
Of course, alarm bells have rung before in Saudi Arabia, but the ruling family remained in denial--deniability and repression being the political arts at which the al-Saud excel.
Alarm bells signaling that the time to take action has arrived should ring at the right moment, and not before.
Philosophy on TopMELBOURNE – Last year, a report from Harvard University set off alarm bells, because it showed that the proportion of students in the United States completing bachelor’s degrees in the humanities fell from 14% to 7%.
The Problem With “Illiberal Democracy”PRINCETON – Poland’s turn toward authoritarian rule has set off alarm bells across the European Union and within NATO.
Global alarm bells might cause pangs of guilt for wealthy Westerners, but they don’t give us an adequate understanding of what’s going on.
By 2009, the IMF’s Article IV Staff Report was already ringing the alarm bells.
Frightened by its own waning popularity, it does not ring alarm bells loudly enough.
This should be triggering alarm bells in the West.
In the unlikely event that the same thing happened again this year, alarm bells would have rung.
Only after the epidemic had reached Hong Kong, a key global financial hub, did alarm bells go off.
COVID-19 and the Thucydides TrapBEIJING – As Graham Allison of Harvard University has warned, “when a rising power like Athens, or China, threatens to displace a ruling power like Sparta, which had been the dominant power in Greece for a hundred years, or the US, basically alarm bells should sound.”
Nowadays, the alarm bells are sounding so loud that they are drowning out ideas that would allow the United States and China to escape what Allison called the “Thucydides Trap.”
To avoid these undesirable scenarios, allow me to ring a few alarm bells and raise a few caveats.
And, when it comes to plastic waste, the warning bells have been ringing loud and clear for years.
And, of course, the media have a stake in ringing alarm bells and keeping us glued to their pages, platforms, programs, and podcasts.
Or perhaps this year’s conference will have set off the alarm bells needed to prevent the worst from happening.
And that is decidedly not a “black swan” issue, given that the scientific early-warning bells have been ringing – increasingly loudly – for years.
Any new agreement will be May’s old deal with a few bells and whistles.
The IMF, always reluctant to ring alarm bells on the global economy, is especially unwilling to counter the recent upbeat sentiment.
But with the COVID-19 pandemic triggering unemployment alarm bells almost everywhere, it may be time to consider establishing a third indicator: gross national anger, or GNA.
That was also the view of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who, observing the construction of a European central bank, began to ring the alarm bells that summoned a renewed Euroskepticism and, ultimately, Brexit.
In America in particular, wealthy donors were quick to support the cathedral that had rung its bells in grief for the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The rolling of the trams shook the metal floor, the drums were turning, unrolling the cables in the midst of cries from the trumpet, the ringing of bells, blows of the mallet on the signal block; he found the monster again swallowing his daily ration of human flesh, the cages rising and plunging, engulfing their burden of men, without ceasing, with the facile gulp of a voracious giant.
How many vessels have rammed each other, despite their running lights, despite the warnings given by their bosun's pipes and alarm bells!
He ate blackberries along the hedges, minded the geese with a long switch, went haymaking during harvest, ran about in the woods, played hop-scotch under the church porch on rainy days, and at great fetes begged the beadle to let him toll the bells, that he might hang all his weight on the long rope and feel himself borne upward by it in its swing.
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