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He managed to minimalise the damage caused by the soldiers.

Predictably, you found a reason to minimalise people's efforts.

To minimalise any swelling, I had to keep my hand in a sling, raised above shoulder height.

To dig them up just to minimalise the impact on share-holders' profits is wrong.

It looks to me as if they were under orders to minimalise casualties, as far as possible."

Loyalists have re-grouped and closed ranks to minimalise the risk of their organisations being penetrated by the intelligence services.

It is not impossible that a secular power could influence a conclave but conclave regulations minimalise the possibility.

From the beginning of Operation Allied Force, NATO pledged to minimalise civilian casualties.

It's planned to become a part of Via Baltica route and is viewed as a way to minimalise environmental impact of Via Baltica on protected areas in northeastern Poland.

This is true in particular of measures which are intended to restore access to finance on reasonable conditions, to stimulate demand for new vehicles, to maintain standards of qualification and protect jobs, and to minimalise social costs.

Hearing the Fireforce coming from this distance would give the cadres plenty of time to hide themselves, so the RhAF pilots would attempt to approach their targets heading upwind to minimalise this effect.

Meanwhile, the President is saying how he doesn't wish to minimalize recent disturbing events in our great land.

"This proposal would not only minimalize that ministry but probably destroy it."

Kayleen, you can transfer the boxes and ride with us to minimalize visibility."

That does not minimalize the seriousness of the issues, but illustrates that the science is not so easy.

Everybody I know is always trying to include as much as possible in their work, not to minimalize, not to distill."

To minimalize the risk of discovery, the object selected for the mission would of necessity be the smallest among them, the least conspicuous.

It sounded more like isolation to me, an attempt to erase or at least minimalize their individual personalities and mold them into genuine Kappa material.

Arakawa made comedy central in the manga because she thinks it is intended for entertainment, and tried to minimalize focus on sad scenes.

Rather than expand on their debut album's sound, the group wanted to minimalize the songs they recorded for Coexist and muted certain elements during its production.

"Those who want to twist the truths of history and minimalize Germany's crimes are seeking to misuse the memory of that horrible night in Dresden."

"As a salesman," Mr. Rhodes said, "you don't want to sensationalize and you don't want to minimalize.

Productions of "The Taming of the Shrew" often minimalize the Christopher Sly framework or even exclude it.

The district was set up to "minimalize retail and strip commercial development and to promote industrial and office development," said Daniel Gulizio, Islip's planning commissioner.

He told Larry King that our strategy "is having its impact, and it is the best way to protect our troops and sort of minimalize the proximity, if you will.

In reality it's a bit more complicated than that because the types of the chemical bonds change - they are not just balls and springs - but that does not minimalize your perceptive observation.

Finally, Steve Turre, the trombonist, didn't minimalize like Mr. Bartz or come prepared with a transformative concept like Mr. Wamble's or Ms. Min's.

He writes "To strip down or minimalize le Carré, however, is to sacrifice the almost Tolkienesque grain and depth of his created world: the decades-long backstory, the lingo, the arcana, the liturgical repetitions of names and functions".

In addition, the book provides the reader with a straightforward presentation of Heidegger's own defense; and it reveals the degree to which his followers have been eager to rationalize, minimalize or shrug off his political views and their connections to his overall theories.

Therefore, it is often the case that researchers are forced to compromise by developing trees that simply try to minimalize homoplasy, finding a maximum-cardinality set of compatible characters, or constructing phylogenies that match as closely as possible to the partitions implied by the characters.

If one has a religious life, one can rationalize one's slide into the abyss; if one has a sense of humor (and a sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised), one can minimalize it through irony and wit.

At the same time, both the chronicles and the discussions between Geneva and her narrator-friend also describe the multitudinous ways in which the majority of white Americans, especially the keepers of the judicial, political and police systems, seem to find ways to subvert, defeat or minimalize the black thrust for change.