Among Protestants Christian dogma has taken a new and ambiguous direction, which has at once minimised its disturbing effect in practice and isolated its primary illusion.
If he never minimised a victory in his communications Nelson certainly did not remark unduly on his wounds.
Any blame which may have been attributable to Troubridge wasminimised by Nelson in his despatch to the Admiral, “all has hitherto been done which was possible, without effect.
The disabilities of poverty were minimised by payment for attendance in the assembly and the courts.
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.
They took it upon themselves to declare it impossible that certain charges made against Luther should have been minimised by me in real earnest, and various good aspects of his character admitted frankly and with conviction.
Occam is fond of calling it, as the consequence of original sin; on the other hand it minimised too much the evil effects of original sin on the reason and on the will, by assuming that these powers still remain in man almost unimpaired.
This is all the more deplorable because the effectiveness of sexual education is minimised through the lack of insight.
Although work on these craft is still very cramping for the crew, the increase in the deck space and in the surface buoyancy has greatly minimised the discomforts of service in the submarine flotilla.
The narrator minimised the points in favour of his flash of vision, while his commentator's corrections showed an opposite bias.
He dwells upon the shortness of the time Dave had been on the spot as though this minimised the evil.
The speaker's bold and fearless defence met a storm of personal denunciation that broke from the ranks of the Know-Nothings; but his speech minimised their opposition and inspired Seward's forces to work out a magnificent victory.
Though this advance was exposed to a disagreeable enfilade fire from the Boer 'pom-pom,' the dispersed formations minimised the losses, and lodgments were effected all along the rim of the plateau.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minimised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
