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
It was then necessary to communicate with the maroons, for to attack the cabin in less than full strength, against superior weapons, would be to court disaster.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
