Reduction of hazardous fuel conditions to minimize the chances of large fires developing and spreading to high-value areas.

The blade holder is designed to expose just enough edge to cut through one layer of corrugated fiberboard, to minimize chances of damaging contents of cardboard boxes.

To minimize the chances of this happening and to support the ball carrier, teammates try to stay behind the player with the ball.

In this situation, the player makes use of a specific rolling technique to minimize the chances of injuries.

Decoy reentry vehicles can be used alongside actual warheads to minimize the chances of the actual warheads being intercepted before they reach their targets.

In order to overcome these problems, special tool holders are required to minimize the chances of tap breakage during tapping.

For all ear piercings, the use of a sterilized hollow piercing needle tends to minimize the trauma to the tissue and minimize the chances of contracting a bacterial infection during the procedure.

A special variant uses a two-round-burst to minimize the chances of missing with a third round.

During reentry, the cosmonauts ejected both the orbital module and the service module simultaneously in an effort to minimize the chances that a blanket could snag.

An athlete should also include a good warm up at the beginning of the session, and a cool down at the end of the session, to improve performance, minimize post-workout muscle soreness, to decrease the chances of injury and for other reasons.

Due to their exposure a great deal of effort must be put into designing and configuring bastion hosts to minimize the chances of penetration.

Dentists recommend that their female patients have extractions performed during the last week of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels are lowest, to minimize chances of developing alveolar osteitis.

He leaves to work from the bridge, in order to minimize the chances of accidental exposure to the virus, leaving Archer alone with a dying Tucker and a dead Sato.

Squares would be arranged in a checkerboard formation to minimize the chances of soldiers from one square accidentally shooting the other.

These features help minimize the chances that the clustering failover between systems will be required.

# Newspaper distribution, held by Haymamul ( some newspaper editors believe that Haymamul deliberately refuses to print more newspaper copies in order to minimize the impact of unfavorable press coverage of the government )

The government protected its merchants — and kept others out — by trade barriers, regulations, and subsidies to domestic industries in order to maximize exports from and minimize imports to the realm.

To minimize such financial danger, news media businesses editorially distort their reporting to favor government and corporate policies in order to stay in business.

McVeigh stated in his authorized biography that he wanted to minimize nongovernmental casualties, so he ruled out a 40-story government building in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of the presence of a florist's shop on the ground floor.

In particular, Keynesian theory asserts that the government can minimize the shock of business fluctuations by compensatory spending, intended to maintain or inflate investment levels by government spending.

Somewhat contradictorily, the Act also encouraged the government to develop a sound monetary policy, to minimize inflation, and to push toward full employment by managing the amount and liquidity of currency in circulation.

The Constitution separated government into three branches that check each other to minimize threats to liberty and encourage deliberation of governmental acts.

The government has set-up a Tiger Protection Force to combat poachers, and funded the relocation of up to 200, 000 villagers to minimize human-tiger conflicts.

Because of dwindling tiger numbers, the Indian government has pledged US $ 153 million to further fund the Project Tiger initiative, set-up a Tiger Protection Force to combat poachers, and fund the relocation of up to 200, 000 villagers to minimize human-tiger interaction.

The government protected its London-based merchants — and kept others out — by trade barriers, regulations, and subsidies to domestic industries in order to maximize exports from and minimize imports to the realm.

Nearly all the English colonies in America were settled without any significant English government support, as they were used chiefly as a safety valve to minimize religious and other conflicts in England.

The government protected its merchants -- and kept others out -- by trade barriers, regulations, and subsidies to domestic industries in order to maximize exports from and minimize imports to the realm.

Another, more refined, normative conclusion also often discussed in law and economics is that government should create institutions that minimize transaction costs, so as to allow misallocations of resources to be corrected as cheaply as possible.

Thus, the government must use the Pigouvian tax revenue to lower another tax if it wants to minimize the economic damage of a tax.

The Sudan Divestment Task Force has organized a nationwide group which advocates a targeted divestment policy, to minimize any negative effects on Sudanese civilians while still placing financial pressure on the government.

This approach seeks to minimize the role of government — arguing that lower wages solve problems of unemployment, and relying upon trickle-down economics ( the belief that growth and wealth will trickle down to all segments of society ) to address poverty.

He argued that this was possible if the government planners used the price system as if in a market economy and instructed state industry managers to respond parametrically to the state-determined prices ( minimize cost, etc .).

* U. S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative, a joint government and academic program to develop control measures to minimize the threat of Fusarium head blight ( scab ) in the United States

Like the back country constituents he served, Ballenger resisted the notion of a large federal government and sought to minimize government regulation.

Fleet Management is a function which allows companies which rely on transportation in their business to remove or minimize the risks associated with vehicle investment, improving efficiency, productivity and reducing their overall transportation costs, providing 100 % compliancy with government legislation and Duty of Care obligations.

By being largely self-sufficient in these local matters, they were able to minimize their burden on and contact with the Russian government.

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.

The spectrometer was adjusted to minimize the amount of dispersion mode mixed in with the absorption signal.

The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

The aim was to prevent and minimize the consequences of natural outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases as well as the treat of alleged use of biological weapons against BTWC States Parties.

Every patient was treated as if infected and therefore precautions were taken to minimize risk.

For heating, it was desirable to maximize the temperature and minimize the luminosity.

In traditional cultures, a great deal of experience with and detailed knowledge of Datura was critical in order to minimize harm.

The Federal Reserve System was designed as an attempt to prevent or minimize the occurrence of bank runs, and possibly act as a lender of last resort when a bank run does occur.

The boom was used to remove the MAG from the immediate vicinity of Galileo to minimize magnetic effects from the spacecraft.

One of the major engineering feats was to minimize tube burnout, which was a common problem at that time.

To minimize any resulting legal actions, the ceremony was to be performed in public.

To minimize the visual impact, the building was covered in large reflective glass panels ; Cobb said this would make the building a " background and foil " to the older structures around it.

In order to minimize personal clashes and avoid factionalism there was a convention of procedure which mandated that strong criticisms be circulated beforehand to avoid conflict during actual meetings.

This ethnic segregation had cultural and economic reasons: intermarriage was forbidden to keep up the Manchurian heritage and minimize sinicization.

The notion of customizable features was not appropriate for Web use, so one goal of XML was to minimize optional features.

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 ).

As there was no longer a direct correlation between the operator's hand movement and the bits transmitted, there was no concern about arranging the code to minimize operator fatigue, and instead Murray designed the code to minimize wear on the machinery, assigning the code combinations with the fewest punched holes to the most frequently used characters.

Every patient was treated as if infected and therefore precautions were taken to minimize risk.

Each cable between the modules was a twisted-pair, cut to a specific length in order to guarantee the signals arrived at precisely the right time, and minimize electrical reflection.

This was solved with the use of a directional antenna, which could be manually turned to maximize ( or minimize ) the signal, thus " pointing " to the storm.