Arabic term
Accurate than correct
Native in: Arabic 
Works in: Arabic to English, English to Arabic
دق ناقوس الخطر
المطالبة بوقف التحضيرات للحرب
Proposed translations
Egypt
The best in IT ... and in Automotive
Native in: Arabic , English
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, English, and 1 more.
danger bells are tolling
Now the danger bells are tolling, heralding a word on the brink of war.
or you can ommit the definite article for a different impact:
Now danger bells are tolling, heralding ...
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a world, not word.
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Sami Khamou
: The metaphor is very clear in this question.
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Khalid Alkodah
: tolling is better than ringing ... tolling itself means danger
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Saleh Ayyub
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Dina Abdo
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Mohamed Gaafar
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sousou
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Accurate service & fast delivery
Native in: Arabic 
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English
He rang the alarm bells
He sounded the alarm bells
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Alaa Zeineldine
: the alarm bells rang أعتقد أن ناقوس الخطر هو الفاعل في هذه الجملة
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Than you Alaa ربما "دق" هو فعل لفاعل مذكور في جملة سابقة. هذا يعتمد على السياق وتحريك الكلمة
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French/Arabic-English legal translator
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK)
Works in: Arabic to English, French to English, English
The alarm bells rang/sounded
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Alaa Zeineldine
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thank you, Alaa
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Alexander Yeltsov
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thank you, Alexander
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A Nabil Bouitieh
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thank you, Nabil
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Taking your project seriously
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Saudi , Egyptian, Jordanian, Iraqi, UAE, Lebanese, Syrian, Kuwaiti, Standard-Arabian (MSA), Palestinian) , Hebrew (Variant: Modern / Israeli)
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, English to Hebrew, and 3 more.
The bells of danger rang/sounded/hammered
proven quality translation work
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Yemeni, Standard-Arabian (MSA))
Works in: Arabic to English, English to Arabic
The tocsin ringing was signalling the danger of eminent war
N ناقوس الخطر
so does the Sakhr dicitionary in the Family Program disc.
Merriam Webster's defines tocsin:
1 : an alarm bell or the ringing of it
2 : a warning signal
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Note added at 9 days (2005-08-31 21:15:40 GMT) Post-grading
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Any particular reason for the absolute decline? I am interested to know from a purely academic perspective.
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