Sentence examples for minimizing the bad from inspiring English sources

Archbishop Sheehan, he said, "is publicly praising Sanchez and minimizing the bad things that happened under his tenure".

But for now, what we've got are a whole bunch of similarities: A lead character who, underneath the bad haircut and cheap clothes, feels cheated and misunderstood; a man whose way of life involves minimizing the bad things that he does and that other people want to get away with.

It just requires removing (or minimizing) the bad stuff and putting in the good stuff.

"You minimize the bad times," Mr. Singer said.

He sought to minimize the bad blood that spilled over from the primary.

She wore a summer dress of sun-faded cotton; he kept his eyes on the traffic, to minimize the bad luck of seeing her before the ceremony.

She smiles before delivering her lines, a gesture that is supposed to minimize the bad aftertaste of her tricked-up dialogue.

I don't mean to minimize the bad things.

Bank of Hawaii stayed very conservative in its underwriting strategy during the housing bubble, which helped minimize the bad loans on its books today.

Act Utilitarians employ yet a third notion of moral considerability, which is a matter of having one's interests (e.g., the intensity, duration, etc. of one's pleasure or pain) factored into the calculus to determine which action minimizes the bad and maximizes the good.

"Part of my job over the past several years and over the next couple of years that I'm still in office is seeing if we can start providing some sort of framework that ensures that we get the good and minimize the bad".