It is also to underestimate them, and thereby to court disaster.
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But the surest way to court disaster is to have no coherent plan at all. ♦
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German diplomats warn that redrawing boundaries in a region still reeling from war would court disaster.
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Silence and solitude may court disaster, he said, but he believes these battles are his to fight and to overcome.
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Washington (CNN)Bernie Sanders' campaign manager Jeff Weaver sent a sharply worded fundraising appeal on Wednesday, saying that Democrats "court disaster" by nominating Hillary Clinton.
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Northern Ireland is a beautiful place, but it also a tinderbox, and to ignore the bloody history of the Irish border is to court disaster.
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By Wednesday morning, hundreds of families were left to sleep on the street, some at a makeshift shelter at a covered basketball court, disaster officials said.
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"To perform it is to court disaster," the pioneering Monteverdi scholar Denis Arnold once wrote of the many interpretive decisions and conjectures that have to be made before a sound is even produced.
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"The Democratic Party must decide if they want the candidate with the momentum who is best positioned to beat (Donald) Trump or if they are willing to roll the dice and court disaster simply to protect the status quo for the political and financial establishment of this country," Weaver wrote.
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Until the headsets go completely wireless (which is in the works), it's too easy to get wound up in cables — and court disaster — as you move around larger spaces in VR. Touch still deserves criticism for its power needs and its sub-optimal 360-degree tracking, but it also makes a case for VR experiences that leave you free to move around without a true room-scale experience.
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However, like most beings in the mythos, to see it or learn too much about it is to court disaster. Some authors state that the favor of the god requires a human sacrifice or eternal servitude. According to the genealogy Lovecraft devised for his characters (later published as "Letter 617" in Selected Letters), Yog-Sothoth is the offspring of the Nameless Mists, which were born of the deity Azathoth. Yog-Sothoth mated with Shub-Niggurath to produce the twin deities Nug and Yeb, while Nug sired Cthulhu through parthenogenesis.
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In the case of Brasília, whilst Niemeyer remained faithful to the ideas of zoning and green spaces, his revised urban utopia became based upon a smaller city with a high vertical concentration of people with increased pedestrian facilities. In 1958 he had warned that his utopian dream could not be fulfilled unless society itself was reorganised to suit it. At its inauguration the city was branded a Kafkaesque Nightmare with an Orwellian environment. > To reduce the matter to high density when no due attention was given to > communal facilities was to court disaster; to create open space without > greenery was to devalue the idea of the community living in nature.
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