The Cube was able to minimise from a massive object to a small object.    From Wordnik.com.  [Official Title Revealed - Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen « FirstShowing.net] Reference

Immigration minister Damian Green announces intention to 'minimise' detention of children rather than end practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Government climbdown on detention of children in immigration centres] Reference

Although his department was not involved in the case, it would have to see how it could "minimise" the "negative messages".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He then said he had a shower to "minimise" any risk of infection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph Blogs] Reference

He was speaking after the provincial ANC called on the commission to "minimise" long queues on the Cape Flats.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Perhaps the TradesUnion bosses could stop using accountants to 'minimise' their personal tax take from government as a gesture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Damian Green, the immigration minister, has revealed that the government only intended to "minimise" the number of child detainees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Now when I use the "minimise" button on an application, the app disappears completely, where it used to shrink down to the task bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [PCLinuxOS-Forums] Reference

"minimise" the quantity of personal information available for all to see?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines] Reference

Education, did not attempt to minimise their import.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891] Reference

'Don't try to minimise the importance of this, Mr Landers.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Laughing Matter]

Everybody had his or her own particular planet to minimise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

By selling in time he managed (logró) to minimise the loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference

Better to minimise work's burden while maximising what it pays.    From Wordnik.com.  [This column will change your life: Just the job] Reference

The best way, always, to minimise woes was to concentrate on something else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come To Grief]

Schools changing their name or status owe it to parents to minimise extra costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Academies urged to cut cost of new school uniforms] Reference

If applied to such soils, especial care ought to be taken to minimise risk of loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

To minimise this danger B ascends to a higher level to obtain the paramount position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

The judicious use of litter, however, will minimise this loss to within a trifling extent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

The work must be mounted in such a way as to minimise the effect of changes of temperature.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

Not that any such consideration led her to gloss or to minimise the disabilities of her own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

In order to minimise this loss, the practice of growing catch-crops has been had recourse to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Anyways, I promise to at least try to minimise the amount of assessment-related whinging I do in here.    From Wordnik.com.  [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference

With one or two exceptions, the writers take care to minimise the dangers incurred in the use of stimulants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference

It is the fashion to-day to minimise the influence of the Goths on the national characteristics of the Spaniard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference

The surest way to deliver these is to minimise long-term investments, such as machinery and research and development.    From Wordnik.com.  [We lost sight of fairness in the false promise of wealth] Reference

Moreover, fear was expressed that it would minimise the much desired sympathy of England and other foreign governments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

But in their speeches, Parker and his supporters sought to minimise the President's part and to magnify the Douglas doctrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

"Only a half-decked little cutter of about two or three tons," answered the Captain abjectly, trying to minimise his offence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference

Anxious to minimise the danger, yet loth to check a sentiment of fraternity so creditable to our common humanity, I have devised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892] Reference

This undoubtedly was the case, and there is no desire to magnify the deeds of the Sea-wolves or to minimise the heroic defence of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference

So, if we cannot kill the programme all at once, let us strive to make it innocuous and to minimise its evil effects on its victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference

Do not minimise danger when a timely warning may avert an accident, or other misfortune, nor should symbols of ill omen be exaggerated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference

In order to minimise the results of aeroplane bombs, tents in encampments are to be scattered and distributed over a considerable area.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference

Too much up on the plane to minimise that drag, and you risked losing more than you gained as your screws clawed frequently at empty air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvage for the Saint]

Staff at the zoo hope that introducing him to the females soon will minimise the chance that he will take against the baby when it is born.    From Wordnik.com.  [London zoo brings in Irish gorilla to replace dead males] Reference