Sentence examples for were to minimise from inspiring English sources

Inspector Nick Bennett, the tactical firearms adviser during the police operation, told jurors: "My concerns were to minimise any form of overt action by police which could initiate any reaction or over-reaction from Mr Saunders".

The conflicting objectives for optimisation were to minimise the cost and weight of the composite subject to the constraint of a minimum specified flexural strength.

The other goals were to minimise VT at a plateau pressure of 30 cmH2O.

Maybe it was to minimise his risk.

"It's to minimise rigging and violence.

"I think it's to minimise studio interference.

"Our priority is to minimise loss of life," he said.

But is it plausible that Nato's primary motivation is to minimise the loss of life?

But their effort should be to minimise pain, not to extend it.

The object of the entire exercise was to minimise the number of unhappy people.

The goal of a machine is to minimise downtime, but human beings are not machines.