set the alarm bells ringing

Nothing he can really put his finger on but enough to set the alarm bells ringing.

But it was Nella who had set the alarm bells ringing in the first place.

That should have set the alarm bells ringing.

Here the highly, if not to say excessively, media-conscious David Servan-Schreiber was not the first to set the alarm bells ringing.

The government takes the view that President Clinton was simply addressing domestic critics of his foreign policy and that his complaints shouldn't set the alarm bells ringing.

The latest UMTS auction in Great Britain, where prices soared sky high, will, in any case, set the alarm bells ringing.

Whittingham remained Cardiff's best hope and he lifted in another cross, setting the alarm bells ringing in Palace's defence, but there was Gardner again heading clear.

It was Hillary Clinton, the first "baby boomer" to become First Lady and an ambitious product of Yale Law School, who set the alarm bells ringing.

It was transformed dramatically into a European question as the ever-increasing flows of immigrants and the increase in related crime set the alarm bells ringing in all the Member States.

Recent polls showing a possible victory for the 'no' vote in the referendum in France on 29 May on the so-called 'European Constitution' have set the alarm bells ringing.

We cannot afford to fail here, and the fact that today's visit by the president of Macedonia, of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has been called off should set the alarm bells ringing here.

If Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, says that the economic, social and cultural situation in Chechnya is very grave, despite some progress - which we have of course also noted - then this has to set the alarm bells ringing.