"Balancing risk against what is essential to a happy lifestyle".
He had to weigh the seriousness of the risk against the other public interest considerations.
Their decisions, which require weighing an inborn risk against other life priorities, are highly individual.
Sally: Often I've been attracted to other people, but you weigh the risk against the reward.
So wrote Peter Bernstein in his seminal history of risk, "Against the Gods", published in 1996.
This paranoia has become my reality, as I weigh risk against the value of living a fearless existence.
Measuring normal risk against unreasonable risk is what good parents spend every minute of their lives doing.
He says he will check discoveries about genetic disease risk against his genome sequence daily, "like a stock portfolio".
But to take the cynical risk against your fundamental belief, I wonder if in the long run that will work".
You'd expect, then, that Wall Street firms would be especially rigorous about balancing risk against reward, and about earning and keeping the trust of customers, clients, and lenders.
When that sort of thing happens, people typically weigh the risk against the benefits of doing business with a particular company.
