"By promoting a fight that cannot be won," he said, "you risk creating rancor and division."

Stick at one and risk creating a little emperor.

She decided to risk creating a magical wall of fire ahead of them.

The debate in Congress over identity theft is only one part of the cure, and it risks creating more paper, not enough action.

But teaching unions have warned that they risk creating a "two-tier" education system.

Looking for racial genetic markers does indeed risk creating categories that can get us in trouble.

But in both cases its response risked creating bigger problems.

There are international economic sanctions, which hurt ordinary Iranians and risk creating a nationalist backlash.

Otherwise we risk creating an incident that could threaten the truce, which is already fragile at best.

But they risk creating new stereotypes; they are great simplifiers.