Sentence examples for invite catastrophe from inspiring English sources

To commit the same mistake in a post-Saddam Iraq would be to invite catastrophe.

Not only does the case's fundamental design invite catastrophe in the form of coffee spills, chairs rolling against it and so on, but the design compromises they've had to make are completely inexplicable.

It was Chelsea's own sloppiness that invited catastrophe.

It's also a setup that invites catastrophe as a principle of creative destruction, and that, too, is something that Allen audaciously suggests in the film.

Ancient civilizations often believed that undue attention from the gods invited catastrophe, not least as provoked by the form of a beautiful daughter.

And while Harari acknowledges the dangers these developments could bring, he also sees the potential for a future that goes beyond the humanist literature that has historically warned us that transgressing natural limits invites catastrophe.

It warned that unless "this fundamental gap between global need and global capacity is closed, we invite future catastrophe".

A few days after taking office, he said that leaving global warming unchecked invites "irreversible catastrophe".

The more we blithely remain addicted to oil, and not face up to all its negative geopolitical and environmental consequences, the more we invite sudden catastrophes like the gulf spill.

Vamps cannot get into your house until they are invited; likewise, member states of the UN cannot get into a war unless they are (attacked, convinced of imminent humanitarian catastrophe, or) invited in by another member state.

Johnson was invited as a "special guest" to Victoria Park in east London to ride the zip wire but catastrophe struck when, 20 metres from the end of the line – the mayor ground to a halt.