bare minimum

In an attempt to reduce the possibility of the theft to a bare minimum, a good alarm system is installed.

Israel restored supplies the next day, but said it would keep them to the bare minimum needed to prevent a shutdown.

And it must insist that as a bare minimum the system has enough capital and liquidity to absorb a crisis as bad as the last one.

When you don't feel like working, it's easy to tackle everything half-heartedly, doing the bare minimum to scrape by.

'I think the point of these upgrades is that they are the bare minimum needed to maintain Taiwan's defense doctrine. '

I hereby declare you ready to travel the world with the bare minimum.

Doctors recommend 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise three times a week at the bare minimum.

Avoid complaining beyond the bare minimum necessary at the moment.

In the Duke experiment, the lithium-6 atoms are cooled so much, thermal motion of the individual atoms in the gas are at a bare minimum.

This is the bare minimum that will restrict administrative access from an adjacent queue manager and is only used here for illustration.

When it comes to effort, an impossible 110 per cent used to be regarded as a bare minimum.

Clicking the "Readable" button will fetch the full content from the source, strip it to the bare minimum and display it in your feed reader.

'Course, Norton failed to mention to the press that 'bare minimum of expense' is a fairly loose term.

These values represent the bare-minimum requirements because any site that has a significant amount of traffic will find them inadequate.

It also has the advantage of requiring no false counts, and only a bare minimum of card handling ability.

Book the cheapest but comfortable hotel, flight ticket, etc. to pare down your expenses to a bare minimum.

They are pretty good at stitching up impressive looking deals, having lowered expectation to a bare minimum beforehand.

Back in Listing 5, I coded the bare minimum implementation to get my behavior to work.

You do only the bare minimum, but still come home feeling tired, stressed and drained of energy.

One side says the answer lies in voluntary labels, the other says mandatory ones are the bare minimum.

These numbers are the bare minimum; the true figures may be much higher.

Listing 3 sets the CLASSPATH environment variable to the bare minimum required by Derby to run ij.

By contrast, in a media company, investment will be kept at a bare minimum.

He and his daughter have been discharged from the government camps with the bare minimum to start afresh.

This, of course, is the bare minimum and restricts only administrative access.

'I've cut spending down to the bare minimum -- no cell phone, no satellite TV, and 33 cents a day to feed the dog. '

There are many more fields for which a value could be set; I have used close to the bare minimum in this example.

Pick the bare minimum number of development tools.

At its bare minimum you can write pure Ruby classes with attribute accessors and create the usual Hibernate mapping files by hand.

I suggest keeping your meetings to a bare minimum if you want to get a lot of work done.

and makes millions while spending the bare minimum sentence in jail.

However, you should try to keep coupling to a bare minimum.

'At a bare minimum, make sure you're connected to at least 35 people and make sure your profile is 100 percent complete.

Keeping visual noise to a bare minimum will make an interface seem easier to use.

at a bare minimum of expense to Mr. And Mrs. John Q. Taxpayer.

I live in China at the moment and try to survive on the bare minimum of calories a day.

We are only going to implement things at the bare minimum.

There are two threads for the execution support at a bare minimum.

Keep meetings to a bare minimum.

So Nasa plans to modify the design of the station, taking up only the bare minimum.

Of course he didn't tell the press that "bare minimum of expense" is a fairly loose term.

A one year warranty is the bare minimum seen on projectors.

that "bare minimum of expense" is a fairly loose term.

Instead of doing the bare minimum, you're putting in your best effort each time to get the results you want.

Try and pack the bare minimum when you first move into your dorm room. The less you have the better.

The lamp itself uses a bare minimum of materials.

Grab the bare minimum (books, iPod, notebooks, computer only if you need it) and head somewhere else.

He did the bare minimum of work but still passed the exam.

You're just going to do the bare minimum to get by.

The "lock-out" time is kept to a bare minimum so that users cannot tell the defragmentation is running.

I wish I could just do the bare minimum.

What's the bare minimum you need to get started?

This is the bare minimum error processing for SOAP.

Every day, millions of people around the world eat only the bare minimum of food to keep themselves alive.

It is this additional control information (at a bare minimum just some links to more data) that turns mere media into hypermedia.

I like to run a mean, clean efficient machine with the bare minimum to get me by.

Note that these are really bare-minimum numbers. For more realistic figures, see