Today it is the bare minimum of a village: one house, a tiny chapel and half a dozen barns.
No internet, no 3G and the bare minimum of mobile phone reception.
The system tray, to the right of the Taskbar, contains only the bare minimum of items, such as the network and battery indicators.
It is the bare minimum of your job description, after all.
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The commemorative supercar centers on a cabin that only allows room for the driver and a bare minimum of instruments, eliminating pesky distractions such as passengers and stereos.
But in political terms, the new stridency among senior British Muslims is probably the bare minimum of assertiveness they could show while keeping any credibility with their grassroots.
The protesting employees have recently taken up a "work-to-rule" action -- in essence, performing only the bare minimum of work required by their contracts in an attempt to slow airline activity and pressure management to pay attention to their grievances.
Although the technical membership of the UPFA may now be approaching the bare minimum of legislators needed to maintain a majority in the 225-seat parliament, the government is likely to be able to find a comfortable number of MPs to back its legislative agenda from among the numerous smaller parties in Sri Lanka.
Looking back, Ms. Romine wishes she had taken only "a bare minimum" of student loans.
Government intervention was only ever intended to achieve a bare minimum level of pension provision.
Dedicated smut-hunters will want to stay away from this film, for the good reason that it offers only a minimum and not always a bare minimum of actual sex.
Sri Lanka were at least 20 runs short of a bare minimum score and you cannot really recover from such a poor start.
That would leave the bare minimum three commissioners out of five usually needed for a quorum at the SEC.
The plant reduced the number of expatriates to a bare minimum on more than one occasion.
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We might not all agree that student loan debt should be forgiven but I think most folks are of like minds that, if the federal government continues to promote loans over grants as the way to finance college, then Americans deserve a student loan system that, at the bare minimum, empowers borrowers to take control of the debt management experience.
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Mr Fisher argues that, as a measure of damage, slaves' lost wages are only a bare minimum, since they do not reflect the higher price a person would require freely to choose a life of bondage.
Stay tuned for some comprehensive battery tests, but our initial impression is that the only way to meet Apple's talk time numbers is by keeping use of the display to a bare minimum.
Our interviews took place in the canteen of the minimum-security prison, a place of cheap plastic-topped tables and bare wooden walls.
From health reform, Hainan wants to put pensions and industrial and commercial insurance on the little cards with the ultimate goal of reducing the use of cash and checks to the bare minimum.
There are four different methods of installing the game, ranging from a complete CD copy that takes the full 1 GB of hard drive space to a bare minimum install that uses CD swapping when the movies are needed.
Tim Lamb of the Sport and Recreation Alliance said the two hours a week target should be the "bare minimum", adding that despite many outstanding initiatives school sport was "an issue still in need of a great deal of attention".
Mr Daschle's appointment, at a bare minimum, suggests that Mr Obama understands the main lesson of the HillaryCare debacle: that the hardest thing about any big and tricky reform (and health care is the biggest and trickiest of the lot) is getting congressional approval.
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Display information is paired down to the bare minimum like prominently showing just the artist and title of a song in the center of the audio menu.
What our cloak accomplishes is that it reduces the mass of fluid that has to be displaced to a bare minimum .
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Decades of isolation and consumers boycotts have kept tourist arrivals to a bare minimum, so now the rush is on to sell Myanmar as an exciting new destination.
People immediately recognize all of those phrases mean the project is intended to give backers the bare minimum and gouge them later.
Spam filters are now in place on just about every email system, reducing the amount of spam reaching user accounts, both personal and corporate, to a bare minimum.
Developing an energy strategy should be cast as a positive initiative that can improve the bottom line of a company and the broader community not as a bare-minimum attempt at conservation.
At a bare minimum, the company could simply be firming up friendships and hedging its bets on the future of computing.
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