Sentence examples for was held to a minimum from inspiring English sources

Political rhetoric was held to a minimum, but the words we did hear sounded true.

As is usual in documentaries about popular music, any actual singing was held to a minimum, so that the singers could speak in prose, which costs a lot less to quote.

Conflict with the Native Americans, whom the Mormons referred to as Lamanites and favourably regarded as descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, was held to a minimum until the colonizers became more and more ubiquitous, and local Native Americans began to raid the settlements.

Extravagance has been held to a minimum, but there are some handsomely opulent effects.

The inevitable (and welcome) nostalgia is held to a minimum as each shows her more mature side.

Rest periods should also be arranged so that disruptions of work and services are held to a minimum.

The total cost obtained by the ELM-PSO approach is held to a minimum while successfully satisfying all the regulatory constraints of the contaminated site.

So all states should be held to a minimum standard, but they should have choices among programs, from inspecting car exhaust to controls on power plants.

Levitt emphasized: "However, we conduct as much training in advance as possible so the instance of confusion on caucus night can be held to a minimum.

This being Bollywood, the players keep their clothes on and bloodletting (if not gunplay) is held to a minimum, while the plot's major shifts are separated by music videos, oops, I mean musical sequences.

Dr. Milot said the genetic changes in his study showed up so clearly because other factors that might cloud them had been held to a minimum by the particular social conditions on Île aux Coudres.