minimise the damage

I still hope we can do something at least to minimise the damage.

I figured it was the only way to minimise the damage.

What's the best way to minimise the damage?

The UK needs to minimise the damage it will sustain when the project goes down.

Minimise the damage from an attack: Implement a trustworthy plan for removing all traces of an attack.

Appropriate efforts were taken to minimise the damage to this fragile environment, but where the vegetation was damaged, increased depths of summer thaw occurred.

Harm minimisation seeks to minimise the damage to persons and machinery if a wind blast does occur.

The urgent aim must be to minimise the damage and that must be firmly established in the drug programme.

It is also important to ensure that you have the appropriate plant and equipment available to handle your materials and to minimise the damage to them.

This will reduce the financial cost of the dispute, minimise the damage done to employer-worker relations and your business' reputation, and help maintain productivity.

Booms will be used to minimise the damage, but the potential use of chemical dispersants is dependent on whether Italy allows their use.

Having a business flood plan will help you identify and allocate essential tasks that will help minimise the damage caused by flooding.

The committee's report additionally calls for much more gas storage capacity in the UK, to minimise the damage from supply interruptions or price spikes.

The epilogue to this disaster must surely be the urgent adoption of measures to minimise the damage and to prevent this happening again in the future.

We need specific and rapid measures, because the assessment is a harsh one: as things stand, our commitments are unlikely to minimise the damage caused by climate change.

She guessed that, whatever had been done to minimise the damage, he'd have a headache by now, and she couldn't stop herself feeling an immediate pang of sympathy.

The FMA had significant involvement in the investigation of the incident as well as working with the government to minimise the damage caused to the whole financial sector.

As ever we carry on and try to minimise the damage but to be honest the thought for most of us is whether we can get our package to get out.

The government decided to temporarily reactivate Kai Tak's cargo terminal to minimise the damage caused by a software bug in the new airport's cargo handling system.

The least the government can do now is to minimise the damage and ensure that they remember they are dealing with workers who provide vital support to keep our public services on track.

In Sicily, the decision was taken not just for fashion and appearance but also because it would minimise the damage to property and life likely to be caused in future quakes.

Unless the Chinese step in and grab Somalia, it will probably remain a basket case and there is nothing we can do about it except to minimise the damage to ourselves.

While able to manoeuvre to somewhat minimise the damage, Warrior was nevertheless taking hits from 11-inch and 5.9-inch shells, and beginning to suffer large fires and massive carnage on deck.

By means of a limited tactical withdrawal on 10 March, Heinrici was able to minimise the damage inflicted by the preparatory bombardment, and the front in this sector remained firm.

'Been at the wars, I see,' Aviger went on, staring at Horza's face, which still showed signs of being in a fight, despite his internal attempts to minimise the damage.