State aid, he says, leaves Parker 10 percent shy of the irreducible minimum the school needs for its daily operations.

To follow this, an irreducible minimum of biochemical knowledge is necessary.

We would have to go practically possessionless-there was room for only the irreducible minimum of personal effects.

The unaccompanied "Moves" presents us with dance's irreducible minimum: movement in space and time.

All their other behavioral tics proceed from this one irreducible minimum.

Pentagon planners call this plan their irreducible minimum and say further cuts would jeopardize national security.

He knew that they reduced their risks to the irreducible minimum.

Even two stages is too few-but it's the irreducible minimum.

These consisted largely of ammunition, everything else being cut down to an irreducible minimum.

Asked about this year's death toll, he said: "I cannot accept that we have brought it down to its irreducible minimum.