Is it an attempt to minimize risk?
It was an understandable, if futile, attempt to minimize the ramifications of his decision.
But Twitty's investigation makes no attempt to minimize the role of Colonel Tunnell, the brigade commander.
Information from assessment and screening can be used to attempt to minimize risk.
Typically firms like UBS, in an attempt to minimize risk, hedge these types of transactions.
Both groups in making these decisions attempt to minimize transportation costs that they must pay.
The company might push for a heady price in an attempt to minimize taxpayers' paper losses on the bailout.
However, different governments pursue a variety of alternative policy mixes or attempt to minimize exchange rate fluctuations through different strategies.
"It's a transparent attempt to minimize the importance of an issue that is staring everybody in the face as the top priority of parents".
Jack Welch has battled the environmental agency and the state for 10 years in an attempt to minimize G.E.'s responsibility.
The prosecutors anticipate, he said, that Moussaoui's lawyers will attempt "to minimize his significance and nearness" to September 11th, and argue that he was "not worthy".
