Sentence examples for either minimal from inspiring English sources

Any consultations with local communities were either minimal or non-existent.

Other business columnists have made similar recommendations, all despite news reports that some major corporations have paid either minimal or no taxes for years.

Still, some studies involving either minimal risks to subjects or treatments of gravely ill patients -- for example, those taking experimental cancer drugs -- may go forward almost immediately, the agency said.

In such cases, the officials responsible for managing the affairs of the territorial subdivisions are appointees of the central government, and the role of locally elected officers is either minimal or nonexistent.

Some plans already ask patients and hospitals to notify their insurance companies of hospital admissions, but officials at Continuum and some other hospital systems say the penalty for noncompliance is either minimal or rarely enforced.

There are two recently published books that opening day and early-season fly-fishers -- who are abroad at a time when aquatic insect hatches are either minimal or nonexistent and the dry fly is of limited value -- would do well to acquire: "No Hatch to Match" by Rich Osthoff (Stackpole, 2001) and "The Orvis Pocket Guide to Nymphing Techniques" by Tom Rosenbauer (The Lyons Press, 2002).

This versatile approach can be used for either minimal-incision technique, or more extensile exposure.

We have transfected A549 and H1299 cell lines with scr or iSHMT1 and after 18 h the transfection medium was replaced by either a minimal medium or minimal medium supplemented with glycine or serine (0.4 mM each).

"What we're actually seeing is more and more women at the two extremes: either having minimal surgery, a lumpectomy, or having a bilateral mastectomy," Dr. Tuttle said.

Caution is widespread among advisers, who either counsel minimal exposure to stocks, as Mr. Arnott does, or great selectivity.

He listed a string of more senior camp guards, some of them members of the SS, who had been tried for their roles in the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland but had either received minimal sentences or been exonerated of any wrongdoing.