Sentence examples for narrowly avoided disaster from inspiring English sources

Ugandan troops used Butembo as a base from which to plunder the region's diamonds and timber and controlled the customs receipts.In June, the city narrowly avoided disaster.

Another, Andrew Cashner, missed time with a strained muscle last season and narrowly avoided disaster in December when a friend sliced his right thumb with a knife in a hunting accident.

Maidstone crown court heard that Stilwell and Stribling's attempt to bring 18 Albanians into the country narrowly avoided disaster after their dangerously overladen boat ran out of fuel and began to take on water off the Kent coast.

Having narrowly avoided disaster, Wall Street only plunged deeper into financial deregulation.

The Philadelphia Zoo narrowly avoided disaster last year when a mass heating failure occurred during a storm.

She narrowly avoided disaster after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef, and Cook had to throw her guns overboard to lighten her.

Driving, too, was dicey: twice I fell asleep at the wheel, narrowly avoiding disaster.

Yet Romney eked out a win in Ohio, narrowly avoiding disaster for the second straight week.

The next day he himself was shot down by a CR.42 and had to bail out, narrowly avoiding disaster when he became entangled first with his oxygen hose and then with the Gladiator's wing-bracing wires; he was only torn loose at a height of by the force of rushing air as his stricken plane fell to earth.

Dana Resker, a senior at Bridgewater-Raritan High Schoo, navoided avoided a prom disaster.

Barcelona is, as usual, content to play keepaway, though they narrowly avoided an early disaster when Mascherano body-blocked Matuidi on a run into the area.