Sentence examples for it met with disaster from inspiring English sources

However, it met with disaster when he courted the glitzy but unsound DeLorean Motors to build its experimental gull-winged car in West Belfast.

It nearly met with disaster owing to the local population's determined resistance against the notorious expedition in 1899 led by French Captains Paul Voulet and Charles-Paul-Louis Chanoine (also known as Julien Chanoine).

met with disaster, my publishing house would automatically publish it in France. . . .

At the height of the Cold War, in 1968, the K-27 met with disaster when radiation escaped from one of its reactors during a voyage in the Arctic.

The first specialty trip, in 2004, almost met with disaster.

Reports that the expedition had met with disaster soon reached the settlements on the Gambia.

The first U.S. ground troops deployed to the Korean Peninsula met with disaster.

Her first installation, Cultural Landscapes: Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne, though, met with disaster – natural disaster, that is.

Henry and Fernando nevertheless attacked Tangier and met with disaster; Henry had shown poor generalship and mismanaged the enterprise.

Carousel, which transferred from the National in 1994, did decently (it won plaudits for being the first mixed-race production to appear on Broadway), but Hytner's next big musical, inauspiciously entitled Sweet Smell of Success, met with disaster.

Ten days ago Abdul Haq, another prominent Pashtun opposition leader, was killed by Taliban forces after his own attempt to foment revolt, sanctioned and supported by American intelligence agencies, met with disaster.