With a
minimum of effort and insignificant losses, despite the greatest confusion, the most important results of the whole campaign were attained: the transition from retreat to advance, an exposure of the weakness of the French, and the administration of that shock which Napoleon's army had only awaited to begin its flight.
(commonly supposed to have been established by William of Wykeham at Winchester, and imported to Rugby by Arnold more for the sake of the lines which were learnt by heart with it than for its own intrinsic value, as I've always understood), that it is a short exercise in Greek or Latin verse, on a given subject, the
minimum number of lines being fixed for each form.
Also, he learned from the item that first- class papers paid a
minimum of ten dollars a column.
There is a naive side, I suppose, in all diplomacy; but if my pupils practiced upon me, it was surely with the
minimum of grossness.
In these simultaneous observations they thought themselves justified in estimating the
minimum length of the mammal at more than three hundred and fifty feet, as the Shannon and Helvetia were of smaller dimensions than it, though they measured three hundred feet over all.
"I have my own occasional hours of doubt," she answered, "but surely its disadvantages are reduced to a
minimum with--children!
The great difficulty was to keep the mothers in bed for ten days, which was the
minimum upon which the hospital practice insisted.
The compensation--I do not see who is to pay it if I don't, and I have already decided on the
minimum sum.
Mr Warden ambled home, very happy and contented, two hours later, with half a franc in his pocket, this comparative wealth being due to the fact that the
minimum stake permitted by the Roville casino is just double that sum.
He tried to give a memorable lesson with the
minimum waste of life and the
minimum expenditure of explosives.
In an establishment like this, where restraint upon the liberty of the students is reduced to a
minimum, it is necessary that the small degree of subordination which is absolutely indispensable be acquiesced in by all without complaint or delay.
The average price of wage-labour is the
minimum wage, i.e., that quantum of the means of subsistence, which is absolutely requisite in bare existence as a labourer.