at the risk of
Preposition
Meaning
at the risk of
Despite the likelihood of (something bad happening).
At the risk of sounding stupid, how does it work?
Examples
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans.
One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind-dealing with Texas-is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.
We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.