Sentence examples for likely to minimize from inspiring English sources

"We may be more likely to minimize it until it's a really big problem".

If interest rates rise sharply, such adjustments are likely to minimize losses, though not eliminate them.

ASK the Croatian artist Sanja Ivekovic about her work, and she is likely to minimize her role in it.

Obama's one break last week was the McCain camp's indication that it's likely to minimize its candidate's solo appearances by joining him at the hip with Palin.

Justice John Paul Stevens agreed with the result but not with Justice Scalia's reasoning, adding an important limitation that is likely to minimize the decision's impact.

In 1994, an investigative panel, the Mollen Commission, found that the department under Mr. Ward and his two successors was "more likely to minimize or conceal corruption than uncover and uproot it".

But Stephen L. Johnson, the agency's deputy assistant administrator for pesticide programs, said that his staff had analyzed the plans of New York State and New York City for fighting the mosquitoes this year and found they were likely to minimize the use of pesticides.

Faced with a monthlong gap between the end of the Democratic convention and the start of the Republican convention in New York, Mr. Bush is also likely to minimize the amount of time he spends on vacation at his ranch in Texas during that period and instead keep to a heavy schedule of campaigning, they said.