Sentence examples for were minimizing from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Clinton's advisers were minimizing the importance of South Carolina even before polls closed, saying the primaries in Florida on Tuesday and in the swath of states on Feb. 5 were more important.

When the House readers decided to skip the parts of the Constitution that reveal its original limitations, they were minimizing that history, pretending that our founding document was flawless from the beginning.

Kate had been reading the clinical literature, though, and felt autodidactically certain that the Payne Whitney professionals were minimizing something in plain sight: his death-trip history, considered alongside the "conspicuous" spending on coats, ties, shirts, and shoes, represented, at the least, she thought, a mixed-state depression.

Fed officials, in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday, said that they were minimizing risk by accepting only securities that still had the highest triple-A ratings and that they would impose a "haircut," or discount, on mortgage bonds that appear to carry additional risk.

Fletcher and Moser had their differences — Moser is a proponent of Medicare for all, and has called for the President's impeachment, whereas Fletcher is seen as a much more moderate figure — but by the end of the race both candidates were minimizing any policy disagreements.

Criteria for optimization were minimizing the climatic oxidation overpotential for ammonia and maximizing the exchange current density.

Public spats were minimized.

First, selection biases were minimized.

Thus, novelty effects were minimized.

Head movements were minimized using foam paddings.

Finally the models were minimized without constraints.