To promise a balanced budget, come what may, carries the risk of damaging cuts and unacceptable tax rises.
Both types mean the sugar level in your blood remains too high, with the risk of damaging your body.
Critically, however, those aspirations have to be realistic, otherwise parents run the risk of damaging their children's academic outcomes.
And as with any at-home whitener, users run the risk of damaging tooth enamel and gum tissue.
In seeking to isolate America, France would run the risk of damaging its friends and isolating itself.
Caught between what the committee's chairman, John McFall, labelled a "recipe for paralysis", and the risk of "damaging British competitiveness", Walker said he was somewhere in the middle.
You can crank up the volume on your living room stereo and open the windows, but you run the risk of damaging the eardrums of anyone inside.
Australia is at risk of damaging its international standing because of its stance of climate change, former foreign affairs minister Bob Carr has warned.
Flat racing is an adjunct to the bloodstock industry, and quite soon the potential financial gain from victory is outweighed by the risk of damaging the stud value.
"Some of the techniques used, or the manner in which they have been used, present a clear risk of damaging charities, in the public eye," it said.
But some analysts say that Mr. Bush has concentrated so much power in the cabinet departments that he has exposed himself to the risk of damaging internal conflicts.
