Sentence examples for minimise differences from inspiring English sources

So far, however, the mistakes made before the Seattle fiasco in 1999 have been avoided.Thus, instead of bickering, the world's trading titans, America and the European Union, have been working closely together to minimise differences and bring others on board.

Facing budgetary constraints and unable to devalue their currencies, such countries can use co-ordinated national-level wage bargaining to keep claims in a narrow band and minimise differences between the public and private sectors.Global brothersMr Monks says that there are plenty of other opportunities for organised labour to exploit.

This paper has presented a way of determining an SEGM that combines existing information on the Earth's topography, bathymetry and interior with simulated mass anomalies with the aim to minimise differences to a given EGM.

Trees with a minimum DBH of 20 cm were used for the classification to minimise differences in sampling intensities and to avoid the inclusion of early succession tree communities.

Manning found it easier to create male characters, and in general her novels tend to minimise differences in gender, writing about people rather than women in particular.

This conformist transmission would minimise differences within groups and stabilise intergroup variation.

At the Comparison schools the response rate was less important (overall around 25% of IEC students sampled) as the sample was recruited to try to minimise difference in demographic characteristics between this sample and the FUn group, prioritising comparability over representativeness.

Stewart's description, in a London Review of Books piece this summer, of much of the rhetoric on Afghanistan — how it "misleads us in several respects simultaneously: minimising differences between cultures, exaggerating our fears, aggrandising our ambitions, inflating a sense of moral obligations and power, and confusing our goals" — could almost be a cheat-sheet for Brooks.

Labor has been setting the agenda but the government is in the process of minimising differences, trying to hone the argument down to a simple choice between its employment-promoting policies and Labor's spending on services, hoping that voters are not yet convinced they need to change governments again.

This method also has the advantage of minimising differences in segmentation volumes due to changes in 18F-FDG distribution, ensuring the whole tumour is included at both time points.

The use of single crystal surfaces minimises differences in surface area between the three faces limiting possible effects of surface topography which can significantly affect forces of bacterial adhesion to surfaces.[19, 20] The surfaces we employed have limited surface roughness as determined by AFM (< 1 nm rms).