The phrase "abandon risk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the act of letting go of or not engaging with potential risks or dangers.
Example: "In order to innovate, we must be willing to abandon risk and embrace new opportunities."
Alternatives: "forsake risk" or "discard risk".
The choice Robertson presented was between divorce and nothingness to abandon, or risk being isolated.
In Pakistan, the struggle for Kashmir is an epic that no Pakistani leader could abandon without risk of immediate ouster, by fellow politicians or the army.
Crucially, 16,000 researchers were redirected; the most senior, in particular, were made to abandon their risk-averse, ponderous ways.
Many already live on tight budgets, offering little chance at easy savings, and they cannot simply abandon low-risk, low-return investments to put their faith in the stock market's unmatched long-term record.
The new organisation ran into immediate trouble in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics when emergency measures had to be taken to deal with passport queues of up to four hours as a result of May's decision to abandon the "risk-based approach" to checks.
It was the successor management that destroyed A.I.G. and made it a ward of the state by abandoning successful risk management procedures and increasing A.I.G.'s writing of credit default swaps on toxic subprime-linked mortgage securities.
"Risk Takers" Abandon American Principles if the Risk Is Above Zero.
Abandoning Afghanistan risks civil war and ultimately the collapse of the government in Kabul.
Relocating communities and abandoning at-risk structures might make sense on paper, but the social, cultural and psychological obstacles can be insurmountable.
If the euro area's biggest banks were forced to abandon their internal risk-weighting models and instead apply cruder standardised models, many would see their core-capital ratios decline by several percentage points (see chart).
