court disaster
Example Sentences
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To buy your own hype or indulge your own propaganda — to treat your image as reality and close yourself to criticism and critique — is to court disaster.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2022
John Hickenlooper, the former governor of Colorado, said that this approach would court disaster.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 31, 2019
German diplomats warn that redrawing boundaries in a region still reeling from war would court disaster.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2019
To tell the truth would be to court disaster: a probable break-up, plus the risk of a permanent rift between father and daughter and father and wife.
From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2019
Moreover, with adverse winds they might never return to Kamtchatka, and to winter among the Chukches was to court disaster.
From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)
