meet with disaster

Veteran mountaineers and search-and-rescue teams worry it’s only a matter of time before others unversed in the perils follow in their steps only to meet with disaster.

Any woman who dares to venture beyond the security of the place society has made for her — who tries to discover herself as a full human — will meet with disaster.

Few on the English side of the wall believed that anymore; the living Scots were terrifying enough, as was to be proved when soon after Baron’s Percy’s death the army of the realm headed deep beyond the wall—only to meet with disaster, a catastrophe that would plunge the kingdom into civil war.

Officials have no timeline for when all schools will reopen, but in the interim they plan to use many campuses as “service centers,” where students can come for a meal and informal, half-day classes, and where families can get clean drinking water and meet with disaster relief officials.

If the canoe did not meet with disaster from without, why not from within?