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minimal

When something is minimal, it is very small or small enough to not be important, especially the smallest. We had a minimal amount of rain yesterday, so we still need to water the plants. Don't worry -- any problems from this will be minimal.

minimal

(= minimum) the least possible needed to enforce minimal standards her grades were minimal minimum wage a minimal charge for the service

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Simple sentences

Chance of Tom mending his ways is minimal.
Her education was so minimal that she could not even name the eight planets of our Solar System.
The danger is minimal.
The chances that that happens are minimal.
The damage was minimal.

Movie subtitles

Had I had a small business to run it in my own fashion, with a minimal capital.
But professor, they were set for minimal destruction.
My teachers and domestic staff are obliged to report even the most minimal of offences.
And if we act now, right now, our casualties will be minimal.
Such an attack, using weapons of one megaton, could be described as minimal because it's now more than possible that missile warheads or free-falling bombs of between five to ten times that power would be used instead.
Sounds minimal, but I'll buy it.
But we daren't increase power beyond the minimal.
It's not the turbulence, sir. Damage is minimal. What caused it?
The circuits need repairing. Minimal task.
Minimal. Decimal 072.
THX 1138 will be taken into custody at a minimal monetary expenditure.
I can assure you, Colonel, solar activity is minimal.
In order to be in charge ofthat, you need to have a minimal.
Well, not minimal, you need an extensive knowledge ofthe equipment and what rock and roll's about.
The ruler of the country binds himself to let us have the best goods at a minimal price.
Now, look, during times of drought you're supposed to keep liquid intake minimal.
I guess my theory of minimal liquid intake during drought is gonna get a test for a couple of hours.
He guarantees minimal losses.
It's not the turbulence, sir, damage to the ship is minimal.
I am slowly losing life support and minimal shield energies.
Damage-control parties report minimal damage, sir.
Now, to all appearances, it's a minimal-security centre. And all the buildings are legitimate except one, Building 14.
However, minimal property damage.
I'm still checking, but it's minimal so far, sir.
Minimal task.
Minimal strenght, maximum efficiency.
Minimal.
There is a certain minimal risk.
Syndication profits are minimal.
Pressure normal; minimal radiation breathable atmosphere.
The paralysis is progressive --- expectations are minimal. We must prepare for the worst.
Minimal breath sounds.
If you think of the payments as an annuity, the cost is quite minimal.
There's a minimal staff on duty 24 hours.

News and current affairs

Economists like Hyman Minsky, who tried to correct this, were largely ignored as Milton Friedman and others led the profession's push for free markets and minimal government intervention.
It offers an answer to rising demand for healthy food with minimal environmental side effects.
The assassination of the President of Iraq's Governing Council makes it crystal clear that the US is failing to create the minimal law-and-order needed for any sort of orderly transfer of power to take place by June 30th.
If so, the damage caused by the Yukos affair should be minimal.
They may please farmers and other interest groups, but overall they simply drive up costs and reduce already-minimal benefits.
With Palestinians unable to agree among themselves on a minimal national consensus, how can peace be established between them and Israel?
As its economy slows, the improvement in its fiscal position may be minimal.
Just as Smith's minimal capitalism was transformed into Keynes' mixed economy, we need to contemplate a transition from the national version of the mixed economy to its global counterpart.
With the Americans still refraining from engaging in a Clinton-like level of committed mediation, the parties look to be incapable of meeting each other's minimal requirements for a settlement.
If delayed, their effect is likely to be minimal.
Modern technology makes it easy to have a paper trail for voting machines, at little cost; yet several states chose not to provide this minimal safeguard.
Finally, of what value is the right to vote without recognition of the right to a certain minimal standard of living, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The natural consequences are too little employment, too little investment in sophisticated education, too little innovation, and minimal increases in productivity.
The EU's first response to these fears was to make minimal changes - ie, to the number of commissioners, the weight of votes within the Council of Ministers, and qualified majority voting.
Even in the most advanced and affluent societies, a vast concentrated effort is needed to preserve even minimal decency: think of locks, security alarms, police, courts, and prisons.
Moreover, though international studies of more than 70,000 people have found over 20 other genes linked to Alzheimer's, their impact is minimal.
They may not expect regime change, but they expect at least some minimal reforms.
Radiation at these levels poses a minimal threat to human health for anyone outside the immediate area of the nuclear-power station itself.
The first surprise I encountered while working for CCTV as a program planner was how minimal this system is.
What are opposition candidates to do when they are asked to take part in elections that they know they cannot win, or that, even when they can win, will give them only minimal authority?
Indeed, though the threat of a serious Ebola outbreak in the US remains minimal, that is no reason for complacency.
With minimal health risks compared to tobacco smoking, PNVs face only one real barrier to use: smokers' willingness to switch.

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