For those communities which have financial difficulties in effecting adjustments, there are a number of alternatives any one of which alone, or in combination with others, would minimize if not even eliminate the problem.

His love of sounds pushes him to strive to minimize, and ideally get rid of, any foreign accent.

Tactically, the guerrilla army would avoid any confrontation with large units of enemy troops, but seek and eliminate small groups of soldiers to minimize losses and exhaust the opposing force.

Some sources have claimed that despite their scientific contributions, neither was given the award because of their animosity toward each other ; that each sought to minimize the other's achievements and right to win the award ; that both refused ever to accept the award if the other received it first ; and that both rejected any possibility of sharing it ( although Edison did receive one of 38 possible bids in 1915, and Tesla did receive one bid out of 38 in 1937 ).

note, " in order to minimize the expected obsolescence time, the accesses to any particular page should be kept as evenly spaced as possible ".

To address input lag, some modern televisions will offer some sort of " gaming mode " where the TV passes the signal through with minimal processing to minimize any potential image lag.

Deafness is therefore conceptualized from a " personal tragedy " stance, with implicit questions naturally arising such as: " By what criteria and by whom is the impairment construed as an infirmity ; how did the infirmity arise ; what are the risks and benefits of the available treatment, if any ; what can be done to minimize the disabling effects of the infirmity?

They use sophisticated load balancing to shift traffic from one path to another to avoid network congestion on any particular link, and sometimes to minimize the cost of transit across external networks or improve network reliability.

Consequently the surface will push back against any curvature in much the same way as a ball pushed uphill will push back to minimize its gravitational potential energy.

As well, when the principal moves between a vehicle and a building, the principal must be moved quickly to minimize the time window in which a sniper could take a shot and use a flanking escort of close protection officers to block the view of the sniper and any potential shot that the sniper may take.

Modern C ++ compilers are tuned to minimize any abstraction penalty arising from heavy use of the STL.

To sit in seiza for any length of time requires careful positioning of the heels under the sit bones of the hip, to minimize circulation loss.

This choice of name was probably to minimize any confusion with the pre-existing Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine near Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

The surfaces normally do not have any reflective coating so as to minimize ghost reflections.

It is important that any construction should minimize the possibility of creating conditions that

To speed cases along and ensure uniform representation, many legal codes require a defendant or plaintiff to be represented by an attorney at law, whose responsibility is to take the client's case without prejudice, and to their best to minimize the penalties applied by law, including ideally the release of their client from any responsibility at all.

A patient with any of these conditions must be evaluated for special procedures to minimize the risk of patient injury due to the sedation method.

In contrast to a telephoto lens, for any given focal length a simple lens of non-telephoto design is constructed from one lens ( which can, to minimize aberrations, consist of several elements to form an achromatic lens ).

To minimize time to market, this machine was initially shipped without any MIPS native-mode software.

Integralism is a term also used to describe an " anti-pluralist " trend of Catholicism ; the Catholic Integralism born of mid-19th century Italy was a movement to assert a Catholic underpinning to all social and political action, and to minimize or eliminate any competing ideological actors, such as Marxism or secular humanism.

Less obviously, if the card does not match any known card, one of the n known cards should still be chosen to minimize the information provided to other players.

When eating this mushroom for the first time it is wise to consume a small amount to minimize any allergic reaction.

Six Best Practices as described in the Rational Unified Process is a paradigm in software engineering, that lists six ideas to follow when designing any software project to minimize faults and increase productivity.

The legs – if any – are collapsible to minimize the space required.

The basic objectives in each instance are to make available supplies of food during the intervals between harvesting or slaughter, to minimize losses resulting from the action of microorganisms and insects, and to make it possible to transport foods from the area of harvest or production to areas of consumption.

The reduced problem can be stated as follows: given a source with pdf and the constraint that the quantizer must use only classification regions, find the decision boundaries and reconstruction levels to minimize the resulting distortion

The number and frequency of events has been a concern with the resulting damage to the foliage, prompting some partial rescheduling to minimize the wear.

To minimize the complexity of the resulting proof, some preprocessing should be done before the conversion.

* a human social network that behaves like a sociobiological system, wherein people have developed patterns of behavior that minimize transaction costs caused by social barriers resulting from geography, lack of trust, differences in language and culture, and inefficient social networks.

Careful planning was required to minimize generation loss, and the resulting noise and poor frequency response.

Although they can minimize the occurrence of metastability to very low probabilities, all arbiters nevertheless have metastable states, which are unavoidable at the boundaries of regions of the input state space resulting in different outputs.

However, in general, the state is viewed as a positive location for corporate tax purposes because favorable laws of incorporation allow companies to minimize the corporate expenditures ( achieved through legal standardization of corporate legal processes ), creating a nucleus in Delaware with operating companies often in other states.

Harm reduction seeks to minimize the harm that can occur through the use of various drugs, whether legal ( e. g., alcohol and nicotine ), or illegal ( e. g., heroin and cocaine ).

Kurtzman and Elder later tried altering the names and artwork to minimize similarities to Archie characters and trademarks so that it could be reprinted, but they were again threatened with legal action by Archie Comics.

The use of waivers and / or assumption of risk forms that are intended to minimize legal accountability of divemasters is a common practice, but the validity of such waivers will vary with the legislation.

A comment by FAIR on The Washington Posts decision to withhold the locations of these secret prisons was that since the revelations " could open the U. S. government to legal challenges, particularly in foreign courts, and increase the risk of political condemnation at home and abroad ," the Post did its part to minimize these risks.

According to FAIR, the Washington Posts decision to withhold the locations of these secret prisons was that since the revelations " could open the U. S. government to legal challenges, particularly in foreign courts, and increase the risk of political condemnation at home and abroad ," the Post did its part to minimize these risks.

Traitor tracing algorithms aim to minimize the damage by retroactively identifying the user or users who leaked their keys, so that punitive measures, legal or otherwise, may be undertaken.

" Johnson's statements were short to " minimize the U. S. role in the conflict ; a clear inconsistency existed between Johnson's actions and his public discourse.

Collectively they form a corps of Platonic guardians who carry out carefully calculated and planned strategic minimum actions, called Reality Changes, within the temporal world in order to minimize human suffering as integrated over the whole of ( future ) human history.

After the actions at Veracruz, the United States decided to minimize the bloodshed and changed their plans from a full invasion of Mexico to simply maintaining the city of Veracruz.

In response to Clarke's charges against the Bush administration, Fox News, with the Administration's consent, identified and released a background briefing that Clarke gave in August 2002, at the Administration's request, to minimize the fallout from a Time Magazine story about the President's failure to take certain actions before 9 / 11.

Unlike classical utilitarianism, which defines right actions as those that maximize pleasure and minimize pain, preference utilitarianism promotes actions that fulfill the interests ( preferences ) of those beings involved.

This is an all-hazards approach that looks at manmade and natural electromagnetic pulse ( EMP ), cyber attack, coordinated physical attack, pandemics or insider threats and mitigating actions that could minimize such threats.

Even so, The Wire does not minimize or gloss over the horrific effects of their actions.

In January 1962, the KGB sent instructions to fifty-four Rezidentura throughout the world on the actions required to minimize the damage.

These permits have information about which pollutants are emitted, how much may be emitted, and what actions the person in charge is taking to minimize the pollution.

The book advocated a radical libertarian stance, opposed both major political parties, and encouraged self-sufficiency and actions to minimize the influence of the government in the life of the individual, as well as ideas for monkeywrenching.

In Combat sports the use of these various techniques are highly regulated to minimize permanent or severe physical damage to each participant though means of organized officiating by a single or multiple referee's that can distribute penalties or interrupt the actions of the competitors during the competition.

Important goals of the game are both to minimize the amount of repetitive actions a player has to perform to become a respectable force in the gaming world ( called grind ), and also to minimize a player's dependency on game items to stay competitive.

That is why I am gathering the principal parties together next week to consider the findings of the Keeper and to discuss how we might find a common-sense agreement on actions that could be taken to minimize and mitigate Cape Wind ’ s potential impacts on historic and cultural resources.