While the pursuit of pleasure formed the focal point of the philosophy, this was largely directed to the "static pleasures" of minimizing pain, anxiety and suffering.

If it is conducted humanely, with a real effort to minimize suffering, is it so clear that there is no sufficient basis for overriding the relevant rights?

The leaders said they were doing everything they could to minimize civilian suffering.

Similarly, he has scorned utopian models, urging societies to strive instead for an imperfect republic in which citizens would learn to minimize injustice and suffering.

Where death is inevitable, minimizing suffering should be your first concern.

Animals should be cared for in ways that minimize fear, pain, stress, and suffering.

One of the guiding principles of animal research is to minimize suffering.

Directive 93/119/EC seeks to minimize the pain and suffering of animals during slaughter through the use of proper, approved stunning and killing methods.

In order to minimise human suffering and enhance our own credibility, we need to introduce one more correction to the external relations budget.