Maybe he came at night to minimize the chance of discovery, but still he couldn't be sure.

The best available advice is to minimize the chance of dropouts at the design stage and during trial monitoring.

Some restrictions may be made permanent, to help minimize the chance of airborne terrorism.

Thursday's event was closely coordinated with the police department to minimize the chance of violence, organizers said.

All the more reason to minimize the chance of having to send a selection back to the store and start shopping all over again.

There has to be a match to minimize the chance my body will reject it.

We've taken a number of measures to minimize the chance this will ever happen again.

Al came over late one night, at eleven, to minimize the chance of being seen by the press.

Coming in fast and high would minimize the chance of being heard.

"I am certain you did everything you could to minimize the chance of discovery."