The phrase "a minimal case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to refer to the simplest or most basic example of a situation or argument.
Example: "In order to illustrate the concept, let's consider a minimal case that highlights the key principles involved."
Alternatives: "a basic example" or "a simple instance".
** In describing the benefits of human nature, Hume sounds almost plaintive; he asks for our belief in a minimal case for human decency.
In describing the benefits of human nature, Hume sounds almost plaintive; he asks for our belief in a minimal case for human decency.
Lawyers for Mr. Bakaly argued for a directed verdict of acquittal, saying the prosecution had not even made a minimal case that he had lied in denying discussing secret information.
The study was designed as a pragmatic study with a minimal case report form to allow for the participation of hospitals without research staff.
In this case, the relative isoperimetric inequality can be extended to the hyperbolic space, and to a minimal submanifold case (not necessarily a minimal surface case).
Beginning with this minimal case, Hume, in an earlier book, "A Treatise of Human Nature" (1740), laid out a genealogy of morals.
"We're waiting for the final results tomorrow," Greenberg said from Arizona, "but all indications are that it's the most minimal case of hyperthyroidism possible.
The lesson here is if you want to use this minimal case, keep in mind that the parts are every bit as delicate as they appear to be.
It seemed an odd confidence on which to build a family — that the child would be your own, live-in Gracie Allen, and you could dine out on his errors — but I thought that perhaps he was only defining, so to speak, the minimal case.
Jurors who spoke to The Texas Tribune seemed as impressed by the state's wealth of evidence as they were shocked by the minimal case that Mr. Norwood's lawyers had presented.
We give new necessary conditions for these families of GDDs and prove that they are sufficient for these three types and for all group sizes except for the minimal case of mixed designs for group size 5t(t>1).
