Another important fact is that the laborers are accustomed to be paid in kind, and to carry on a system of exchange of goods which will further minimise the cost of the undertaking.
It was in the meantime quite apparent to her that Leonard kept it as his last resource; so her instinct was to keep it to the front and thus minimise its power.
But though her outward expression being thus curbed had helped to suppress or minimise the opportunities of inward thought, the idea had never left her.
The phrase, as it stands in our Bibles, suggests that Paul is trying to minimise the gravity of the man's offence; but just in proportion as he minimised its gravity would he weaken his exhortation to restore him.
Is it not then wise to minimisethese potent and dangerous allies?
Olivares did his best to minimise the matter, and the Duke was let off with a heavy fine, much humiliation, and a challenge to fight John IV.
Now, when the most degraded savages are taken as the truest representatives of primitive man, the temptation is to minimise both unduly.
The rest of the story Alec told with an apologetic air, as if he were ashamed of himself, and he treated it with a deprecating humour that sought to minimise both the danger he had run and the courage he had displayed.
Our social arrangements discourage parentage very heavily, and the rational thing for a statesman to do in the matter is not to grow eloquent, but to do intelligent things to minimise that discouragement.
There is, I know, a disposition in some quarters to minimise the importance of Proportional Representation, as though it were a mere readjustment of voting methods.
What fatal temptation leads so many commentators to minimisesuch a prediction as this?
Men catch at the term venial because they love to minimise a thing so tremendous as sin.
Monsieur Profond moved his sleek head as if to minimise his statement.
Lidgett, it would seem, did everything in his power to suppress and minimise the story.
The Association desires, and it has a large volume of Irish opinion behind it in this, to minimise the existing powers, and reduce the numbers, of the Poor Law Guardians.
Lord Wolseley has even gone so far as to minimise the dangers of blockade, because the Irish coast offered such facilities for blockade-running.
In repairs of machinery, the economy effected by the system of interchangeable parts is one of growing magnitude, and tends likewise to minimise the skilled labour of repair.
The feudal law of primogeniture tended to minimise this danger.
Modern Frenchmen, though their national name is in origin the name of a Germanic people, show a tendency, easily understood, tominimise the Germanic element in their composition, and M.
True, he had minimised it, but she ought not to have allowed him to minimise it.
He had intended to slip quietly into the house, and prepare if possible an astute opening to minimise the difficulty of the scenes which must inevitably occur.
But in their speeches, Parker and his supporters sought to minimise the President's part and to magnify the Douglas doctrine.
The influx of immigrants into Mashonaland will, in time, with the gold and diamond seeking population further south, tend tominimise the power of the Boers over the native tribes.
The first day of getting under way will perhaps be found the most trying of any to the patience and temper, unless some little trouble is taken to minimise the confusion generally attending the start of a caravan for ‘up-country.
In the investigation of character there is nothing to be said for being a partisan and for indulging in special pleading, so as to minimise faults and magnify virtues.
I do not wish to minimise them; he behaved ungratefully, inconsiderately, wilfully.
Consequently some effort was made to avoid, or to minimise the effects of, some of the disastrous outbreaks.
The displacement of so large a proportion of men and the ultimate consequence of numerous infections, rendered it necessary to take a comprehensive view of the position, and to endeavour to take some action to minimise the damage done.
So far from wishing to minimisethe evil, I would in a real sense rather magnify it.
We are apt to forget the debt we owe to the work of these early intellectual reformers, and to minimise the influence of the ideas they introduced on every aspect of our lives.
Probably the Duke of York was made to serve in order to minimise the dynastic aspect of the plot.
Blind to the effects of his actions, he did nothing to minimise them when he had tardily realised the possible alienation of Burgundy from the English Alliance.
She did not seek to minimise to herself the fact that she had been of real value to her friends in the last few days, had probably saved Mrs. Sutton from illness, had certainly laid them all under an obligation.
Anna, melancholy and taciturn, exerted herself tominimise the discomfort of her scholars.
It has always been the fashion to minimise Darwin's conclusions, and these have not escaped objection.
Thinkers like Buckle sought to minimisetheir importance or explain them away.
Darwin was too good an observer and too honest a man to minimise the "enormous difference" between the level of mental attainment of civilised man and that reached by any animal.
It is the fashion now to minimise the value of this class of work, and we even find it said by a modern writer that to inquire into the ends subserved by organs is not a scientific problem.
The men worked like Trojans to minimise danger, and to save as much gear as possible to rig jury masts with.
The less power we have to operate by control of the congenital factors, the more necessary shall we feel it to be to minimise the dangers threatening the child by influencing its environment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minimise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
