The importance of minimizing, if not totally eliminating, interference from outside parties was recognized by Afghan and other international participants at the Bonn Conference in December 2001, soon after the Taliban were ousted.
This process is known as forward contamination, and minimizing, if not preventing, its occurrence is the responsibility of Cassie Conley, a plant biologist who has served as NASA's planetary-protection officer since 2006.
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.
