In his desire to secure the religious unity of Switzerland he had no difficulty in abandoning or minimising his own doctrine in the hope of overcoming or winning over his opponents.
It is enough to say that they are reduced to minimising that document in defence of Prohibition, exactly as the slave-owners were reduced to minimising it in defence of Slavery.
Every vice has two names; and we call it by its flattering and minimising one when we commit it, and by its ugly one when our neighbour does it.
The true prophet never makes light of the miseries of which he knows the cure, and does not try to comfort byminimising the gravity of the evil.
And I, for my part, believe that one great cause of the unsatisfactory condition of the average Christianity of this day is the slurring over and minimising of these twin great and solemn truths.
You can do it by paring down the character and office of Jesus Christ, and minimising the importance of His sacrifice from the world's sins, and thinking of Him, not as the Owner that bought us, but as the Master that teaches us.
Dictation from England by force of arms was the one method of minimising the internal warring of factions in the Northern Country.
Hoisting and unloading machines will play a notable part in minimising the expenses of handling goods carried by sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minimising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
