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    1. Minimize the number of lunch dates and work-related gatherings (either


    2. with proper planning you can minimize this


    3. You still have to be careful to minimize the


    4. Putting a plastic bag over your hand will minimize the mess


    5. As for the burn, my sister, Jan, had provided me with a cream to apply on the effected area every day and it helped greatly to minimize the redness and/or burn


    6. He was a sharp dresser and even though his suit clothes had been tailored to minimize the effects, it was readily obvious that he was a body builder


    7. Hilderich nodded in acknowledgement, and Amonas pulled him upwards hard and fast so as to minimize the after-effects of splintered bone against Hilderich’s raw flesh


    8. I was able to reconnect the tendons in your wrists and minimize your scarring in general


    9. The best preventative approach to this problem (as outlined in the chapter on dealing with clenching/grinding) is to recognize the effects of stress on the mouth and jaw system and to take steps to minimize the problem


    10. That situation overloads the other sectors as the organizations with profit or non-profit that hug the social responsibility to minimize the social drama that annihilates the world as consequence of enormous and proven state-owned deficiency

    11. Common sense is the ability to make decisions which will minimize risk and failure


    12. In fact, he made a copy of it so that he could minimize the mess of any other pet birds that might visit


    13. If you're a student who juggles weekly afternoon activities and doubt this would work for you, then try to see if you could minimize them into the school week


    14. Derek pulled the receiver away slightly to minimize the


    15. Use a fresh shaving blade to minimize the chance of spreading the


    16. The structures of the center of town were built intentionally low to minimize noise in the streets


    17. As the legend goes, at the end of the trial when the judge asked him if he had something to say to minimize the negative impact on his admirers, he answered “Such is life”


    18. Though he consciously tried to minimize the hurt, he could not sleep that whole night, and the next day was the worst day of his entire life


    19. If it is decided that the curse is unjustly harsh, it will be my task to try to minimize the suffering it may cause to Talia


    20. “We will see what we can do to minimize the suffering that he and Talia face

    21. bad as what I experienced, and thereby minimize the abuse


    22. “I am here in my role as a Healer, to try to minimize the suffering that will be caused by the curse


    23. consisted of my attempts to minimize and hide each little thing that


    24. At that speed he must minimize the wind he must deflect, or the noise would be deafening and the cold would be dangerous


    25. didn’t minimize my concerns or blow me off or try to bully me into


    26. So I find myself trying to minimize people’s expectations of me


    27. They appeared above the civic government buildings in a tight sphere, all of them packed in as tightly as they could be and still breathe, in order to minimize the surface area of their co-operative spherical Shield


    28. They shredded Zarkog’s incredibly charged Shield just in front of Mark’s gigantic fist of Force, which struck Zarkog’s snout without impedance, shattering it in a fountain of blood as the dark dragon spun back and away to minimize the impact


    29. minimize the costs of operations; still hoping things would get better


    30. And it goes on; the only way to minimize this force is related to your capacity

    31. meditation we can minimize the number of thoughts, so we have more connection time


    32. The recently exposed corporate accounting systems appear to be designed to minimize taxes and to claim exaggerated earnings, but the deceptions found in some private businesses pale in the light of unaccounted-for billions “lost” by several federal departments


    33. A good way to minimize hard drive fragmentation which in turn will speed hard drive access


    34. It was deliberately simple so as to minimize the probability of things going wrong


    35. they can minimize or lessen them


    36. Gāndhi was not afraid of telling the truth about British Raj, he did not ask for mercy, and did not minimize his ‘crime in the eyes of British law’


    37. Create an action plan to minimize the key hindering forces and maximize the promoting ones


    38. In some cases, it may be best to minimize some of these


    39. It is much better to move on to firmer footing and minimize the issue than it is to make a big deal out of it and firmly implant it in the audience’s mind


    40. fluctuation in his feelings is inevitable, but he must try to minimize it

    41. Because of this, in order to try to minimize the likelihood of your new lead


    42. She’d fought as hard as she could to minimize his payments to Angela, but as she told him over and over again, without his participation in the proceedings her hands were tied


    43. Eat more high fiber foods to feel full longer and minimize hunger


    44. There will most likely be negativity here, but it is up to you to minimize or maximize it – and it is best to minimize negativity where possible


    45. If you are fond of drinking beers with your friends, then you may have to minimize it


    46. Aside from that, you should also minimize the use of hair styling tools that give off heat


    47. Minimize the use of your shower’s heater


    48. One of the best ways to minimize heat during the summertime is to turn off all the heat sources inside your place


    49. Turning off these things whenever they are not in use would minimize heat inside the house, and would help you save on energy cost


    50. This would not just minimize the energy consumed, but it would also conserve water





































    1. Just in case, he got all of this minimized and hidden before he went to the door


    2. It took him awhile to find, it was minimized in the upper left corner of the room behind a stack of personnel files


    3.  The flicker effect that may occur on a Web page during navigation is minimized


    4. Thom sensed the meeting was over, he tapped the signed req back into his phone and minimized it, then got up to go


    5. and that she would suffer the Consequences… being as brilliant as she was, she abolished The realm of mathematical possibility which minimized time To pure “now” for the purposes of objective analyzing


    6. The skinny devil was propelled sideways and tumbled aft, while Truman minimized his skid by lying on his back with palms to the deck and the soles of his shoes pressed flat


    7. This will ensure (not guarantee) that if your dog does bite someone in the future the damage will be minimized


    8. But now that the misgivings have proven prescient, exactly what is the risk to Carlotta and how can it be minimized?”


    9. precautions, should be minimized


    10. Shopping excursions should be minimized; they are just a good excuse for buying unnecessary items

    11. my mind recently has been the way I minimized the situations that


    12. To mitigate my irritation, I minimized the amount of time I spent in her presence


    13. the challenges of navigating the desert were minimized; not eliminated but minimized


    14. And even if they can’t be totally prevented, problems can be minimized to a great extent


    15. -How can this be minimized or eliminated?


    16. I tried to explain that my approach would still give their organization the same amount of cash, with a bit more work but there would be an advantage, insofar as the blank spaces on the back page of the bulletins would be minimized


    17. This outdoor chore can be minimized in a few ways


    18. Government dependence is minimized as people care for each other with emphasis on family and community


    19. ’ When applied to international politics by those who believed themselves to be in the mainstream of the German intellectual world the problem of reconciling the unending struggle for a Greater Germany with the Christian love of one’s neighbour could only be solved by rejecting some if not all principles of Christianity This solution was being formulated at the turn of the century a train of thought which minimized the principles of Christianity in order to free Germany from the moral inhibitors hindering the application of Deutschland Uber Alles


    20. minimized with the same actions that will boost structural integrity and decrease the cost of equity - stability of sales and income in the domain of higher returns

    21. the WACC, and it is essential that this cost be minimized


    22. Since interest rates change frequently, and will rarely be above the cost of equity for a solvent company, the WACC cannot be minimized on the basis of its own parameters


    23. towards them is greatly minimized, the simple reason is that when you


    24. minimized when the cost of capital is minimized, there may be times when the capital


    25. rate, capital costs are often minimized because there is less of a risk to equity and the


    26. minimized at varying levels, the combination of fundamentals that achieves this optimum


    27. calculating pay off times, both the risk and return in the market would be minimized;


    28. The same article suggests that when deflection is to be minimized, use no


    29. The scope and character of these papers have been hushed up, or at least minimized, by nearly all those who have inspected them


    30. And presence is to be minimized

    31. been minimized or removed and how they can fully exploit the opportunity


    32. minimized by controlling the introduction of free endotoxins and microorganisms in the feed


    33. Dead legs should be minimized and eliminated downstream of storage tank


    34. Man must evolve above his conflict, love keeps it in check against bad and vigorous all the way problems are minimized


    35. The soul has minimized operation


    36. Criterion function: It is a function P(X1, X2… X n) which needs to be maximized or minimized for a given problem


    37. She walked over as he minimized the page so she couldn’t see it


    38. where that conduct is minimized


    39. unpleasant side effects of detoxification can be minimized, even in those who have


    40. "There were other components that minimized the effect of the drug, so Her Highness Puteri is fine now

    41. The fact that Johan Stolberg had no living relatives was crucial, as it minimized


    42. minimized and consistency would have been rewarded


    43. Note that it is advisable to start reading at the beginning of a chapter so that the effect of half pages is minimized


    44. The larger view of the world as a family may be minimized to


    45. It is the time when seeker feels strength in his love for God and the frequency of his sidetracking becomes very much minimized


    46. but even these minimal requirements are being eroded and minimized down to the least amount possible


    47. Also a lot of readers will give false names and email addresses, but if you are using aweber as an autoresponder this should be minimized as it is a double opt in


    48. “Can I help you sir?” she asked as she minimized the card game she was playing on the computer


    49. I minimized that window and opened a new page in my rush to find what happened after that


    50. Acne and adolescence can be minimized at times with a visit to the local drugstore













    1. Mindfulness minimizes the hold that negative thoughts have on you


    2. It minimizes distracting, negative thoughts and relieves stress


    3.  Minimizes the risk of inventory obsolescence, because


    4. She has a history of thyroid problems and is aware of the dangers of steroids, but minimizes them in favor of achieving her goal


    5. because it minimizes the risk of injury


    6. but minimizes when the capital structure is optimal - at a point where tax benefits and


    7. This minimizes corrosion and biofilm development and aids in thermal and chemical


    8. The growth of equalities maximizes and obsession with materialism minimizes


    9. It also minimizes their ability to fight infections


    10. makesprominent the part of the servants and minimizes the rôles of

    11. The hexagonal cells (cylindrical) are favored as it minimizes the


    12. Growers that prefer to use the ground as its insulator minimizes this risk buy building the greenhouse five feet above the water table and creating drains outside the green house to redirect the water away from the walls


    13. This lessens a lot of confusion and minimizes the possibility of further problems that may severely affect the relationship between you, your ex-spouse and the child or children between you


    14. Many traders want to put the stop as close to the pattern as possible, with the idea that doing so minimizes the size of losing trades


    15. Such an arrangement removes or minimizes the danger of extinction of the junior equity through default in bad times and thus permits the shoe-string common stockholder to maintain his position until prosperity returns


    16. Scrambling the data in this way minimizes the amount of interference and crosstalk on the cable


    17. Using the DNS server that is closest to the client is best, however, because it minimizes the time needed for messages to travel between the two systems


    18. All updates are transmitted in uncompressed form because even though this requires the transmission of more data, it minimizes the amount of processing needed at each domain controller


    19. Then we would want to make use of an estimate that minimizes the mean squared error, that is, an estimate that minimizes the expected value of (h – θ)2, which is equal to the variance of the statistic h plus (Eh − θ)2, where Eh denotes the expected value of the estimate when averaged over a large number of samples


    20. Given this, the trader may wish to construct a spread that either maximizes his profit or minimizes his loss when movement occurs in one direction rather than the other

    21. Optionz Traderz: Ouch! That’s something you’ll rarely see in the world of options, if you are careful to set up your trades in a way that minimizes your risk


    22. In his famous 2014 letter to his shareholders, he explained that when he passes away, the money in a trust for his wife should be invested only in indexes so that she minimizes her cost and maximizes her upside


    23. The trailing stop order only adjusts higher, allowing you to lock in gains, but doesn't change if the stock moves lower, so it also minimizes losses


    24. Passive investing minimizes trading costs


    25. Like in the classic portfolio theory, it minimizes specific risks related to individual underlying assets


    26. Selection of option combinations by maximizing this criterion minimizes the probability to choose unprofitable variants


    27. In this case we can build the combination in a way that either maximizes or minimizes the distance between the current price and the nearest break-even point (depending on the strategy and the predicted price direction)


    28. The optimality means that allocating capital among this number of underlyings maximizes the potential profit of such investment and minimizes its risk


    29. This technique minimizes whipsaws and unwarranted early trade exits


    30. And so it is the peculiarity of the Christian teaching that it makes higher demands than those which are expressed in these commandments, but under no condition minimizes the demands, either of the ideal itself, or of these commandments, as is done by people who judge the teaching of Christianity free from the standpoint of the social conception of life

    1. of one wife, having faithful children), to the exclusion, or minimizing of the other


    2. Minimizing the Chances of


    3. Nevertheless, it would seem that price increases should be effected gradually in order to allow the consumer sufficient time to adapt without causing unnecessary excitement, thereby minimizing its ―shocking‖ effects


    4. Jasmine suggested that point solutions could work if managed correctly, but minimizing


    5. ƒ Family budgeting is about minimizing and totally avoiding if possible any unexpected and deemed unnecessary spending


    6. We must concentrate on minimizing the harm that has been done, and on preventing any more harm to ourselves or to each other


    7. We will neutralize the Dragon Lord as quickly as we can, then withdraw as fast as we came, minimizing our losses


    8. By minimizing the space that it has to cool down, you are ensuring that it would not consume more energy that it needs to


    9. minimizing a memory or situation such that they no longer


    10. minimizing these tensions in order to allow the coachee’s

    11. Minimizing the truth is not a concern


    12. which will ultimately clog your heart minimizing blood flow to the rest


    13. There are a few other resources that help to keep New Orleans honest, that is, to keep hurricanes at bay, minimizing catastrophes


    14. “The principle is about perception minimizing chance, not arguing the numbers game


    15. After removing a pencil from his pocket, Wickland moved his hand toward the sunglasses, hoping to use the eraser on the short stub to adjust the item for better viewing and in doing so minimizing the risk of damaging any potential evidence


    16. Thus, the goal of minimizing the cost of capital is implemented through the


    17. worried about the “clientele effect” of keeping their share prices too high and not splitting them; the premium was placed on minimizing the number of shares outstanding


    18. that maximizes the mean return while minimizing the standard deviation thereof


    19. In fact, the high beta firm is minimizing capital costs by raising equity when the stock price is high: more funds will be raised with fewer


    20. essentially ways of reducing fixed costs and minimizing risk Thus, when the argument is

    21. Although most executives will concentrate on minimizing the WACC, once


    22. By minimizing the amount of debt, we can


    23. laboratory sees it as “dead weight”, neither producing more income nor minimizing the


    24. By minimizing the number


    25. We can only assume that firms are decreasing the cost of capital by minimizing next year’s capital allocation


    26. manipulating the decision tree while minimizing the R squared option on the probability curves


    27. minimizing your tool deflection as appropriate for either roughing or finishing


    28. Some of the issues have been resolved by minimizing the time we are traveling at transwarp, which literally translates to us making small, quantifiable jumps from place to place


    29. But Mister Hardin felt the desired outcome, the passage of a suite of legislation aimed at avoiding or minimizing the Dark Age, was too ambitious to ever receive majority support


    30. water and minimizing microbial proliferation in the system

    31. The primary goal of carbon reduction policy, therefore, is one of constraining carbon emissions while minimizing adverse affects on GDP growth


    32. We took the liberty of having a traffic engineer conduct a study of the existing traffic flow and make recommendations for the best means of minimizing the intrusion into the community


    33. the nuclear fuel and will remove the spent fuel rods, minimizing any risk that


    34. The corporation was invented in the seventeenth century as a legal entity designed to generate capital while minimizing the risk to the owners and operators


    35. He hopped around to the other side of the tree where he was hiding, launching himself into the air; Silas glided as much as he could, beating a few strong beats of his wings, but minimizing the sound


    36. minimizing the effect of AIDS in the continent


    37. • Hexagonal cells share cell wall equally, thereby minimizing


    38. They can do this by starting on small requirements of body detoxification such as minimizing the presence of toxins inside the body which are usually caused by too much use of cigarettes, high levels of alcohol intake, over consumption of coffee, and eating foods that contain refined sugars as well as those that contain saturated fats


    39. When you choose the right breed suitable for the weather in your region, you are minimizing the risk of losses in your flock while ensuring that you will be gaining the quantities of meat or eggs you are looking for


    40. In retrospect, however, I was trying to re-create my insides by re-creating my outside—getting my life validated on the surface while minimizing the confusion of my inner life

    41. In both cases, the objective is to maximize the geometric growth rate of the account while minimizing the risk of ruin, or a catastrophic loss of equity


    42. For many traders, the swing trading approach in an intermediate time frame of several days to several weeks offers an excellent balance: Trading is frequent enough that learning takes place quickly, and most analysis can be done outside of market hours, minimizing the decisions that must be made under pressure


    43. By minimizing inflation adjustments, we give our portfolio a better chance of not only sustaining itself but growing over the long term


    44. A more radical method of minimizing fluctuations due to inventory values has been followed by a considerable number of companies for some years past


    45. Discussion: If there is one thing that professionals are very good at, it is minimizing risk


    46. In minimizing investment risk, it is important to distinguish among variables, depending upon the types of companies being evaluated


    47. We, however, conclude that in general any such impact lacks significant relevance in an investment risk minimizing approach to investments


    48. Comfort is created because the investor is minimizing investment risk:


    49. Actors seek to maximize profits by minimizing their tax liabilities


    50. The entry point is usually a component of a predetermined trading strategy for minimizing risk and removing the emotion from trading decisions

















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    Synonyms for "minimize"

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    "minimize" definitions

    make small or insignificant


    represent as less significant or important


    cause to seem less serious; play down