Minimal or de minimis copying of tiny fragments is ignored.
Where recordings are concerned, in other words, there is almost no class of copying so minimal that the law would ignore it.
The minimal number is no measure of the minimal body nor of the geometrical figure, and the numbers which are in use among men are not those which may be employed by other and higher rational beings.
The atom, which is the minimal sphere, touches in the absolutely minimal point, the smallest terminus.
The terminus of a thing is therefore no part of it, and by implication not a minimal part.
Thus the hindrances to which lesser individuals are exposed, the necessity of taking in and giving out matter as their forms change, exist in the greater individual in a minimal degree.
So time and space, which Aristotle had treated as finite in duration or extent, but as infinitely divisible, like the universe itself, are regarded by Bruno as unlimited in their dimensions, but as consisting of discrete minimal parts.
The bill proposed, however, to raise the tariff on wool to such a rate as would deprive the manufacturers very largely of the benefit to be secured by the system of minimal valuations.
With the cardiac muscle, for example, there is a certain minimal intensity which is effective in producing response, but further increase of stimulus produces no increase in response.
But even a sub-minimal stimulus will, though singly ineffective, become effective by the summation of several.
The expected speed of market processes and the parallelism of negotiations require languages of optimal functionality and minimal ambiguity.
Anyone with a minimal visual culture can read Chinese or Japanese ideograms, i.
More and more books end up as collections of images with minimal commentary.
It is a minimalrule experience, which seems a comedy to someone who never watched it before.
While barter and the minimal language of survival is the only market process in such places, in reality, the world is already involved in global transactions.
With only minimal public attention, all but one of these schools was operating on an integrated basis by 1953.
Symington also warned against the public relations aspect of the scheme, which was of "minimal military significance but of major significance in the current public controversy on purely racial issues.
It is the most densely populated country in Africa; landlocked with few natural resources and minimal industry.
Possessing minimal oil reserves, Bahrain has turned to petroleum processing and refining, and has transformed itself into an international banking center.
Georgia is also suffering from an acute energy crisis, as it is having problems paying for even minimal imports.
Which wouldn't give the victim even a minimal chance of repentance.
Since he'd decided on full cooperation, he no longer needed to fear waking her powers prematurely; that would take her perceiving a threat, and he no longer provided even a minimal one.
For in the sphere of Nature's Laws it is only the minimal things that are worth caring about, the least things in the world, mere specks on the Walls of Life, as it seems to you.
Pre-Empire lawyers would be appalled, because if a law is obscure or easily misinterpreted, it is rewritten until it is clear to anyone of average intelligence and subject to only minimal interpretation by the officer judging a case.
The idle "riding" horses are usually fed very strawy local grass hay with just enough supplemental alfalfa and grain to maintain a minimal healthy condition.
Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world with minimal government services and insufficient funds to develop its resource base.
It can be done peacefully, by consent or with the use of minimal force.
Borders, drawn at random and with a minimal and arbitrary knowledge of the terrain and its inhabitants - led to a hundred years of correctional warfare by the victims of this patronizing ignorance.
To resuscitate the whole languishing area, a staggering 30 billion dollars is touted as the minimal bill.
The Ministry of Finance collects some excises and disburses many salaries, as well as limited amounts for the upkeep of some schools, law courts, minimal public services, and state property, insofar as the Japanese have returned any.
This form is so characteristic that it may often serve for the recognition of a minimalproportion of a substance in a mixture.
The catalyzer, or ferment, does not contribute matter to the reaction, but only the minimal energy necessary to liberate the chemical potential energy stored in the fermenting substance.
Every phenomenon of nature is but a transformation or a transference of energy, determined by the intervention of a minimal quantity of energy from without.
As in all other transformations, the stimulus consists in the intervention of a minimal quantity of external energy.
The catalyzer plays the same role in a chemical transformation as does the minimal exciting force which sets free the accumulation of potential energy previous to its transformation into kinetic energy.
Yet this very case would give the ideal opportunity for a mathematical calculation of the minimal selection-value, although of course it is not feasible from lack of data to carry out the actual calculation.
For they are at once the fundamental and the minimal postulates which religion must make in its outlook on the world, which it must make if it is to exist at all.
The stages from the half-developed acorn-shoot are not equivalent in value to the perfect tree; they are to it as means to an end, and are of minimal value compared with it.
Other nations are new-born, with small populations, few resources and minimal means of defense or offense.
Under a well developed world political federation the world economy could be integrated and used to provide the necessaries, conveniences and minimal comforts for the entire human family.
Actually the price of goods and services in a civilized economy includes minimal charges for raw materials and labor and maximum charges for overhead.
Operating costs of manufacture are minimal in a civilized economy.
