Sentence examples for met disaster from inspiring English sources
Three astronauts went forth, met disaster, faced death and barely limped back to the safety of home.
The Wrights found that Lilienthal and other glider pilots had met disaster because they could not control their machines in the air.
Then he almost met disaster at the par-3, 191-yard No. 13, when he pulled a 7-iron tee shot into the front pot bunker.
Beginning its ascent in early May 1984, her team almost met disaster when an avalanche buried its camp, and more than half the group was forced to abandon the ascent because of injury or fatigue.
Shell has met disaster after disaster trying to hit Arctic oil, ranging from a rig that ran ashore to their contractors facing multiple felony convictions and millions of dollars in fines.
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.
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.
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.
