court disaster
Example Sentences
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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
Their message, like Jones’s, is that Alabamians court disaster if they do not vote.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2017
But the surest way to court disaster is to have no coherent plan at all. ♦
From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017
To show the smallest sign of distrust by attempting, for instance, to place a merely residential set of buildings, completely commanded all round, into a state of defence, was only to court disaster.
From The Story of the Guides by Younghusband, G. J.
