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  • verb Present participle of minimise.

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Examples

  • Following the tragic death of Hayley police officers and staff were involved in minimising inappropriate, speculative or inaccurate reporting, working with the family to try and limit the impact of constant harassment of the family by the media, and reassuring the local community – this work was singled out for praise during the CIPR awards.

    Hayley Adamson is dead but Northumbria wins Gold! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Nutt and his colleagues want regulation to reflect reality, to play some part in minimising the wreckage that most mind-altering substances do to the community, even when little can be done about the harm they can do to their users.

    Britain's drugs hypocrisy is a giant self-inflicted wound Simon Jenkins 2010

  • “Following the tragic death of Hayley, police officers and staff were involved in minimising inappropriate, speculative or inaccurate reporting, working with the family to try to limit the impact of constant harassment of the family by the media, and reassuring the local community”

    Hayley Adamson is dead but Northumbria wins Gold! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • It has a factitious aspect, and Holmes does wonderfully well in minimising, if not altogether disguising this.

    Men Should Weep; Blasted; When We Are Married Susannah Clapp 2010

  • Honda has been accused of union-busting after Unite, Britain's largest union, uncovered company documents referring to minimising its influence at the car company's UK operations.

    Unite clashes with Honda over 'union derecognition' documents 2011

  • As a non-violent, fairly nurturing, hopefully power-sharing (if I ever get any) male, I've never much liked the idea of minimising the differences between male and female, but I do think it would be a good idea to find out what they actually are (rather than what my lot have been saying they are).

    News from the House of Sticks - 2009

  • Klein was extremely flurried; his interest as a reporter must have tempted him at first to make the most of his share in the exploit, the immediate peril in which he soon found himself to stand must have at least suggested to him the idea of minimising it; one way and another, he is not a good witness.

    A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • "Mark came out with a comment a few months ago, kind of minimising the idea of privacy," Aaron Sorkin said recently.

    Facebook's intriguing world revealed 2010

  • Measures are available, such as minimising the extent of information open to client advisers, automatic access restrictions, multiplying the number of people needed to unlock encrypted data, or prohibiting USB keys and CD-ROMs at the workplace.

    Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010

  • "All of these factors have been designed into the HydroClear as well as addressing important logistical issues such as minimising transport, storage and installation costs."

    edie.net - Latest News 2010

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