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
To remain quiet even for a day in Sedan was to court disaster; yet passivity characterised the French headquarters and the whole army on that afternoon and evening.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by Rose, John Holland
