But disasters can be minimized, if not avoided entirely, with a regular backup program.
Officials will minimize, if not eliminate, negative gallery reaction to Woods's return.
Now Nassau's new county executive, Thomas S. Suozzi, is planning a major overhaul to minimize if not eliminate future refund problems.
Theatrical masterstrokes -- the imprisoned Cervantes putting on his makeup, the artifice essential to inhabit Don Quixote -- are minimized, if not missing.
"The process has a lot of room for improvement, but it has basically been hijacked by insiders in Tallahassee who want to minimize, if not eviscerate, citizen initiatives".
"We are very hopeful that what we have done will, over time, minimize if not avoid blackouts like the one we had in New York".
In 1996, newly appointed Chancellor Rudy Crew, championed by Mr. Giuliani, released a 55-page reorganization plan designed to "minimize, if not completely eliminate, organizational redundancies and inefficiencies".
Coverage of other events has been minimized if not scrapped entirely, at least for a few days — sometimes with breathlessly inaccurate results about the massacre.
"You want to get an arrangement that can improve the situation so the prospect for it collapsing quickly or a return to these kinds of problems is minimized if not altogether eliminated," Mr. Khalilzad told reporters.
Of course, for people as rich and as tax-averse as Trump, there are ways to minimize, if not completely avoid, the estate tax by, for example, setting up specialized trusts.
