Sentence examples for minimizing the extent from inspiring English sources

Minimization in circumscription has focussed on minimizing the extent of a set of predicates (with or without priorities among them), or of a formula.

When Netscape refused to abandon its efforts to develop Navigator into a substantial platform for applications development, Microsoft focused its efforts on minimizing the extent to which developers would avail themselves of interfaces exposed by that nascent platform.

From the outset of the incident, the Chinese government's official stance was to downplay its significance, labeling the protesters "counterrevolutionaries" and minimizing the extent of the military's actions on June 3 4.

Vegetation management could reduce ET by 170 mm m−2 year−1, potentially minimizing the extent and the duration of groundwater drawdowns.

Therefore, Mill continues, the primary problem in designing workable political institutions is to maximize the happiness of the community by minimizing the extent to which some of its members may encroach upon, and enjoy, the fruits of other people's labor.

The project also yielded uniform labeling of cadmium content in fertilizers and best management practices for minimizing the extent to which crops take up cadmium.

He minimized the extent of the spread, saying in a news conference, "We have two small areas.

The S.E.C. chairman sternly rebuked Philip Purcell, the chief executive of Morgan Stanley, for trying to minimize the extent of his firm's involvement in the scandals.

Does the Bush administration have a plan to minimize the extent to which a terrorist attack might succeed in influencing elections here?

But it tried to minimize the extent of them by saying they involved countries that accounted for less than 10percentt of its business combined.

But Mr. King suggested that Muslim leaders had minimized the extent of the problem he said he had identified.