The phrase "assuming a risk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the acceptance of potential negative outcomes in a situation or activity.
Example: "By participating in extreme sports, you are assuming a risk that could lead to injury."
Alternatives: "taking on a risk" or "accepting a risk."
"There is a fundamental distinction between the reward for taking a known risk and that for assuming a risk whose value itself is not known," Knight wrote.
Even if the government gets a commercial interest rate, it is still assuming a risk that the private sector is patently shunning.
The company was hugely unpopular, and yet another bail-out funded by taxpayers would be met with outrage because, in effect, the government would obviously be assuming a risk that was supposed to be borne by the shareholders.Meanwhile, Railtrack was due to announce its half-year results in November.
But assuming a risk σ 2 - return μ context, we can solve for in terms of (μ, σ 2) to define Normal-Lomax pairs with equal means and variances: alpha =frac{2{sigma}^2}{-{mu}^2+{sigma}^2} beta =frac{-{mu}^3-mu {sigma}^2}{mu^2-{sigma}^2}.
Sample size was calculated to test the hypothesis that treatment with AQ+SP or DP would decrease the 42-day risk of parasitemia (the primary outcome) compared to treatment with SP, assuming a risk of 65% in SP-treated children.
Assuming a risk of recrudescence adjusted by genotyping of 6% for MAS3 and 1% for DHA-PPQ group, we calculated that a minimum of 250 patients would be needed in each treatment arm to detect a significant difference at 5% significance level and 80% power.
Assuming a risk-neutral investor, the results indicate that compared to an energy-only market with a price cap at 3 000 €/MWh, an energy-only market with scarcity pricing and the market design with a capacity mechanism are two efficient options to reach similar levels of load loss.
In other words, assuming a risk-free rate of return, every dollar of state government spending for the next eight years would need to be diverted into the pension fund in order to erase these unfunded liabilities.
Taxpayers assumed a risk the Rock was unable to bear because it had been running a risky and reckless funding model that couldn't withstand the crisis.
Ms Justice O'Malley concluded that Mrs Teehan could not force the HSE to assume a risk, which it considered was better avoided.
Clearly, in such a case, he simply assumes a risk and binds himself to pay to the other party a sum of money sufficient to compensate the latter for the non-fulfilment of the assurance.
