Sentence examples for meets with disaster from inspiring English sources

1995 Constantino Rocca, a former factory worker from Italy, meets with disaster and triumph on the 72d hole, fluffing his approach shot and then sinking a 65-foot birdie putt that brings him to tears of joy and earns him a spot in a playoff.

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.

If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster.

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

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

The family and the animals from the zoo embark on their journey to Canada but meet with disaster on the ocean.

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

Three astronauts go forth on a daring quest, meet with disaster, face death and barely limp back to the safety of home.

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).

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.