The phrase "meet disaster" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a situation that has gone wrong or a situation that has had dire consequences. For example, "The company was unprepared for the virus outbreak and, as a result, they met disaster when their businesses had to close down."
Waves of settlers come and go and meet disaster, love, horror, mishaps, mayhem and are transformed by the beauty and strangeness of Mars.
In 1961, employees came in on a Saturday to produce the first truckload shipment to meet disaster needs of victims of Hurricane Carla on the Gulf Coast.
Had he not promised on January 18th to resign, the result would have been a full-blown mutiny.King Ludwig's fate inspired romantic films; Mr Stoiber's woes are more a Greek tragedy, in which the protagonist is bound to meet disaster.
Her mother had a premonition of disaster, and vowed never to sleep on board – so she sat up fully clothed every night and was ready to meet disaster when it struck.
That's why, in answer to Maclean's question about the need for better structures to meet disaster, we need to design structures that are resilient sources of collective sense making.
He had watched the Allied advance as far as Brussels – in which his troop was in the van – come to a halt because of supply difficulties, then meet disaster in the resumed forward push at Arnhem after the enemy was given time to bring up extra strength.
"Misfortunes seem to thicken round us," he wrote to his wife in his late 40's, "and our duty and our peace both require that we should accustom ourselves to meet disasters with Christian fortitude".
And you are going to meet disasters, that just kind of goes with the territory.
He said either the world committed to action on climate change "or let us be prepared to meet disasters".
Three astronauts went forth, met disaster, faced death and barely limped back to the safety of home.
