军队将尽量用最少的兵力控制西部沙漠。

The army would try to hold the western desert with a bare minimum of forces.

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城市里的军事活动容易引起麻烦，将被控制到最少。

Military activities within the city, which tend to attract trouble, will be kept to a minimum.

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当然，我们想知道，是否它如设计那样来控制症状，并安全的做到(例如，用“容忍”的最少副作用)。

Of course we want to know that if a drug proves to control the symptoms it is being designed to control, it can it do it safely, (e.g., with a minimum of "tolerable" side effects).

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