He did the absolute minimum to stay eligible to play football.
Practitioners do the absolute minimum to stop the bleeding and prevent sepsis before sending patients to the intensive-care unit for warming, fluids, and resuscitation.
At each stage of the euro crisis during the past two years, Chancellor Angela Merkel has seemed to do the absolute minimum needed to keep the single currency together – but no more.
"The middle of the court turns out to be pretty astute politically, and these terrorism decisions did the absolute minimum," Mr. Kramer said.
Mr. Lyall and Ms. Wise could have doubled their square footage with a second story, but they resolved to do the absolute minimum: a 675-square-foot addition.
"Experts criticise that Australia's attitude appeared to be to try to avoid making any substantive commitments, and to do the absolute minimum that it has to.
"We will do the absolute minimum, which is passing the authorizing and appropriations bills, and maybe a few bite-sized morsels that appeal to conservatives and get out of town.
Such employees often show similar traits: – They do the absolute minimum to meet their responsibilities and nothing more.
"The worry is that the Home Office will do the absolute minimum to bring the UK in line with Europe and we will end up with very weak powers," he added.
With that in mind, they "tried to do the absolute minimum, which would be required to put it into a movie version".
Cynically, this means that politicians will do the absolute minimum necessary for "The People," while keeping their deep-pocket donors happy by doing what they're told to do in Congress -- and hoping that "The People" don't notice.
