Sentence examples for precipitate disaster from inspiring English sources

As these examples indicate, a deceleration need not precipitate disaster.

Contrary to widespread sentiment, no politician sets out to precipitate disaster (although avoiding it may not always play a large enough part in their calculations).

Even with the best of intentions and a sincere desire to avoid nuclear war, the complexity of weapons systems, the unreliability of communications systems and human fallibility can precipitate disaster.

Fatigued athletes and scholars usually harm only their own prospects, but pilots, drivers and soldiers may precipitate disasters.

The Idiot (1868): The tale of Prince Myshkin - the "idiot" of the title - whose naive and trusting nature precipitates disaster for the people around him.

Any attempt to fully align the two regions would precipitate a disaster for environmental standards, particularly in the EU where the bar tends to be higher.

But then he proceeded to bring back some of the very Clinton appointees that had done so much to precipitate the disaster in the first place.

Look out, New York!" Many schoolchildren today learn about the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, but they don't often learn about what precipitated the disaster.

Among the secrets that Jesus, a boy beset by "philosophical headfucks," keeps from Vernon is one regarding his sexual exploitation by two adult men ("Nuckles," "Goosens") involved in a homosexual pornography Web site, which precipitates the disaster.

In this, Simón is clearly akin to the emotionally starved "professor of communications" in one of Coetzee's best-known novels, "Disgrace," whose rejection by an escort-for-hire whom he has been seeing routinely for years precipitates the disaster — the "disgrace" — of his life.

No doubt errors in judgment were made, some by BP –both in precipitating the disaster and in its initial response to the spill but also by others, notably an American company involved in the exploration.