However, the international oil prices kept rising and losses expanded.

Similar strategies kept financial losses to a minimum at other institutions.

All this was done from cover in order to keep losses to a minimum.

Skillful firefighting has kept losses to life and property remarkably low.

Then in September, things got worse with the end of federal price supports that had kept losses at manageable levels.

These two points suggest the power of government to solve the free rider problem and to referee the process to keep losses in bounds.

Enron may have discovered ways to use the accounting rules to enable it to keep losses off income statements, while leaving profits on them.

The secret of United's success is an ability to keep losses to a minimum.

A policy of sanitary felling has kept losses in the city to an average of 1000 a year.

He decided he would try to keep losses to a minimum as he named a fee.