Smith cannot think about her father without thinking in galactic dimensions, which, paradoxically, minimize him: drawn to that scale, individual lives (even his) can seem puny, and private traumas (even hers) inconsequential.
Coil movement during the recording sessions was minimized by drawing a line on the skull that marked the optimal position of the coil.
Perioperative blood management strategies include minimizing blood draws, restricting transfusions, intraoperative cell salvage, acute normovolemic hemodilution, antifibrinolytic agents, and using point-of-care tests to guide transfusion decisions.
The NeighborWorks study tried to minimize this bias by drawing from the data of the credit-rating agency Experian to select a comparison group with credit practices similar to those of the counseled buyers.
"I do know that if I were allowed to tell you about the specifics of Mr bin Attash's torture, you would laugh the next time you heard the government try to minimize its wrongdoing by drawing a distinction between waterboarding and other forms of water torture.
In 2015, a lawyer for a detainee subjected to water dousing told the Guardian: "You would laugh the next time you heard the government try to minimize its wrongdoing by drawing a distinction between waterboarding and other forms of water torture".
We used the following approach to minimize the chance of drawing conclusions based on incorrectly predicted targets.
The aim of this paper is to describe how these methods can be applied to indicator data to construct and test plausible theories of the consequences of a poorly identified unplanned intervention in ways that minimize the risk of drawing erroneous conclusions.
Deciding what to wear depends largely on your body type: If you have a large bust but slim waist (ice-cream cone or triangle shape), you want to minimize the bust while drawing attention to the hips and butt.
In the Texas case, a Federal District Court in Washington found that state redistricting maps showed intentional discrimination — among other things, black and Hispanic lawmakers were excluded from the map-drawing process, and districts were drawn to minimize the power of minority voters in ways that "could not have happened by accident," including one district shaped like a lightning bolt.
