We're preparing to risk destruction, which is something else again.
The prudent course of action would be to flee rather than risk capture or destruction.
You risk as much destruction as you're hoping to unleash.
Paris was considered to be of too greater value, culturally and historically to risk destruction in a battle.
Covertly, however, he considered it extremely foolish to risk universal destruction on an oath made to people that he'd never met.
Yet why bother to risk destruction, he asked himself?
Today the artists voted to close the show rather than risk destruction of the remaining works.
Rather than risk certain destruction, they surfaced and also surrendered.
His long experience as a secret agent had taught him that sending too many messages risked discovery and destruction.
Why would anyone want to leave being a god to come back to risk death, or destruction, at the hands of the Empire?