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There's ways, if it's temporary, to minimize the impact, but it's a problem.
In order to minimize the weight, it's very thin, it's as thin as a sandwich wrapper.
And if there's a bit of wind, if you want to minimize splashing, you can actually lower the roof.
Since it's organic, I'm really keen to try and minimize the addition of any chemicals.
What I've learned from talking to these folks is that we share a common desire to understand and accept death and to minimize the impact of our death on the environment.
And the fundamental idea is you want to plan your movements so as to minimize the negative consequence of the noise.
Maybe after we've tried 15 times, we've mastered some specific subject, so you want to minimize the time it takes to try those 15 times.
And so I don't want to minimize the position of alpha females in the chimpanzee group.
I'm not going to minimize those concerns.
We want to minimize the distance.
Make sure your bedroom is dark and comfortably cool to minimize “threats” during hyperarousal.
As humans, it's in our nature to want to improve our health and minimize our suffering.
So the four main arguments supporting surveillance like this, well, the first of all is that whenever you start discussing about these revelations, there will be naysayers trying to minimize the importance of these revelations, saying that we knew all this already, we knew it was happening, there's nothing new here.
So what we think, as Earth scientists, is species are going to have to migrate with climate change from the east in Brazil all the way west into the Andes and up into the mountains in order to minimize their exposure to climate change.
Now, overcoming this bias is not easy because the fear of death is so deeply embedded in us, yet when we see that the fear itself is not rational, and when we bring out into the open the ways in which it can unconsciously bias us, then we can at least start to try to minimize the influence it has on our lives.
With your money, you can support organizations that focus on these risks, like the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which campaigns to take nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, or the Blue Ribbon Panel, which develops policy to minimize the damage from natural and man-made pandemics, or the Center for Human-Compatible AI, which does technical research to ensure that AI systems are safe and reliable.
They, in these papers, explained to their fellow doctors who perform colonoscopies, how to minimize the chance that when you perform a colonoscopy, your patient will explode.
And what we really need to do is to bring the underground drug markets as much as possible aboveground and regulate them as intelligently as we can to minimize both the harms of drugs and the harms of prohibitionist policies.
Because when people choose the pictures that they use on an online dating website, they often try to minimize the things that they think some people will find unattractive.
In innovative organizations, they amplify differences, they don't minimize them.
We must try to minimize environmental degradation.
Because when it comes to sex, the pressure for men is to boast and to exaggerate, but the pressure for women is to hide, minimize and deny, which isn't surprising when you consider that there are still nine countries where women can be killed for straying.
It is not for us to minimize what that toll was.
Or at least if bad things happen, will minimize the likelihood of it being a total catastrophe.
Well, in the pre-mortem, Danny explained, you look ahead and you try to figure out all the things that could go wrong, and then you try to figure out what you can do to prevent those things from happening, or to minimize the damage.
The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be, to put systems in place that will help minimize the damage, or to prevent the bad things from happening in the first place.
We then went on to optimize the glazing of the facades to minimize the energy consumption of the building.
For this reason, a lot of researchers are interested in forcasting the motion and formation of clouds through satellite images or cameras that look up at the sky to maximize the energy from solar power plants and minimize energy waste.
As the blood vessels tighten to minimize the bleeding, in a process known as vasoconstriction, both threats are averted by forming a blood clot.
The key is to minimize the time wasted by the two slowest people by having them cross together.
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