• Mr Suharto's preference has always been to achieve as credible a result as possible by minimising any challenge to Golkar before the vote takes place.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

  • Choosing bee-friendly gardening by minimising use of pesticides is also encouraged.

    BBC: Londoners eye dead bee images in 'bee-friendly' scheme

  • By minimising the gender gap among its working-class base, the National Front could claim the support of over 20% of the overall electorate, according to Ms Mayer.

    ECONOMIST: Women are flocking to Marine Le Pen

  • In areas where New Labour has nodded in Old Labour directions, such as fairness at work and the minimum wage, he has upset the unions by minimising any impact on the freedom of bosses to hire and fire.

    ECONOMIST: The white heat of Mandelson

  • In order to get growth going by minimising delays to the awarding of big contracts of economic significance, the prime minister wants there to be fewer judicial reviews (there were 11, 200 judicial reviews last year, up from just 160 in 1975).

    BBC: Cameron: No more dotting of 'i��s'

  • Those firms are working hard to strip down their cost bases by shedding employees and minimising the risk of trading blow-ups over the next year.

    ECONOMIST: Hedge funds in trouble

  • These included minimising admissions by working closely with GPs and other health services in the community to help prevent illnesses worsening to the point where patients needed emergency help.

    BBC: Organise urgent care better, NHS told

  • The Japanese problem of the past 20 years, together with the American and European problems of today, boils down to one fact: the economics profession has never considered a recession that could be caused by the private sector minimising debt in order to repair balance sheets after a debt-financed bubble in asset prices.

    ECONOMIST: On the debt crisis, Egypt

  • Now for the avoidance of doubt, these three multinational companies are by no means unique in minimising their UK tax liability.

    BBC: Is government too scared of Google, Amazon and Starbucks?

  • Nautilus says that it is devising strategies for minimising the environmental impact, by trying to contain any disturbed sediment and leaving parts of the seabed untouched so the mined area can be recolonised by marine life.

    BBC: UK Seabed Resources joins deep-ocean mineral-mining rush

  • But we can do this while minimising the risk of harm, not least by ensuring the limitations of the test are not buried in a legalistic consent form.

    BBC: 'Protect consumers from gene tests'

  • Cutting the price tag of the new box by leaving out the peripherals rather than by stripping down its functionality is a shrewd way of minimising two risks.

    ECONOMIST: The halo effect

  • However, the ads developed by TBWA were praised as a success and credited with minimising the spread of AIDS within the UK. These scare tactics were imitated throughout the Western world.

    FORBES: How Margaret Thatcher Transformed the Creative Industry

  • In contrast, Conservative ministers tend to talk about the importance of supply side measures - ways to make it easier to do business and create jobs by, for example, speeding up planning applications or minimising government regulations.

    BBC: Just how flexible is Plan A?

  • Ministers say they want to end the practice of wealthy people minimising their tax bill - sometimes to zero - by donating to charity.

    BBC: Nick Clegg

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