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
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
A sudden blow may snatch safety under such conditions; but to attempt the slow and graduated movements of a siege, with uncertain communications supporting it, is to court disaster.
From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
