Sentence examples for Courting failure from inspiring English sources

Courting Failure examines the issues involved in school funding adequacy in light of recent court cases and shows that judicial actions regarding school finance related to either equity or adequacy have not had a beneficial effect on student performance.

EISENBERG No, to project anything like that would seem to just be courting failure.

Cyprus has come to represent a graveyard for high-level diplomats courting failure.

Sadat & Begin he is courting failure that could be costly for him.

Their mothers add: "If their marks aren't good [at school] there's no contest". But surely they are a bit young to be courting failure?

The idea that the territory was somehow dangerous for her, that she was courting failure or embarrassment, was enough of a motivator to counterbalance her greatest misgiving.

It was a scheme that courted failure by neglecting all the ways in which an office is a sort of neighborhood.

Clifton's Brookdale opened in 1935 at a time when there were plenty of cafeterias and with a motto that practically courted failure: "Dine Free Unless Delighted".

Clifton's Brookdale opened in 1935 at a time when there were plenty of cafeterias and with a motto that practically courted failure: "Dine Free Unless Delighted". Clifton's never lacked for customers then -- even if those customers sometimes lacked money.

Bloom comments after a reading of Browning's poem 'Childe Roland' that 'we have renewed and augmented the self, despite its despair, and its suicidal courting of failure'.

All policies court failure — our war in Iraq, for instance, or the effort to stimulate our struggling economy.