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 attempt to set it on a fully equal footing with national languages as a literary medium is to court disaster.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John
