Sentence examples for asking for disaster from inspiring English sources

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I didn't like driving in the rain — it was just asking for disaster.

"Cars are driving faster," she said, "and making them stop to pay a toll is asking for disaster".

Springsteen has to do so much — lead the band, pace the show, sing, play guitar, command the audience, project to every corner of the hall, including the seats behind the stage — that to wing it completely is asking for disaster.

To anyone who relies on that funding, such a move would always be worrying – Luke says it made him "a wreck" – but in the current climate of threadbare social care and tightened council budgets, it was asking for disaster.

Springsteen has to do so much lead the band, pace the show, sing, play guitar, command the audience, project to every corner of the hall, including the seats behind the stage that to wing it completely is asking for disaster.

As for hiring outside the civil service process, remove it and you are asking for disaster.

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If you're eating shrooms or doing acid while driving you're asking for a disaster, so most people tend to avoid doing that.

Gov. Mark Sanford has asked for federal disaster assistance for Aiken County in recovering from the train crash and chlorine leak in Graniteville last Thursday, which killed nine people and sent hundreds to hospitals.

Gov. Jim Hunt of North Carolina, who asked for federal disaster aid to deal with last week's storm, urged residents to stock up today on groceries, water, heaters and other items they might need.

We'd never ask for federal disaster assistance again.

When the Rondout Creek rose and swept through their rental home, they created a Web site documenting their own disaster and asking for donations with a link to PayPal.

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