The phrase "abstract risks" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to refer to theoretical or conceptual risks that are not physical or tangible. For example: "Businesses must be aware of abstract risks such as cyber attacks, natural disasters, and currency fluctuations."
This is not an abstract risk.
Antibiotic resistance is no longer an abstract risk: this is now a war.
Working with Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz of the Veterans Affairs group and Dr. H. Gilbert Welch of Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Woloshin decided to make the abstract risk estimates as concrete as possible.
The problem isn't so much US citizens downloading the plans, but the somewhat abstract risk of sanctioned groups, or those affected by export bans, downloading the plans and printing armaments.
It's information -– and as alarming as that information may be, risk perception is not just about the facts but how those facts feel, and an abstract risk usually doesn't trigger as much concern as something we've actually been threatened by, or suffered from, in the past.
The court said that an "abstract risk of abuse" wasn't enough to hold someone liable for copyright infringement.
Yet, despite real and present impacts, climate change remains largely an abstract risk to most people in the U.S. Using a survey with an embedded experiment, we explore responses to messages about climate "departure dates" by manipulating the spatial and temporal dimensions of future climate change impacts in two exemplar cities (New York City and Singapore) among U.S. and Singapore participants.
Review methods Both authors independently abstracted risk estimates and study characteristics.
To summarise the effects of acupuncture on outcomes (response rate), we will abstract the risk estimates (relative risk, RR) and 95% CIs.
It will also suggest that an abstract approach risks promoting solutions that rely too heavily on government to solve.
