This is a rationale for forcing people to save much more than the bare minimum.
Today it is the bare minimum of a village: one house, a tiny chapel and half a dozen barns.
Such a policy is the bare minimum and, in my experience, one which most charities are likely to have adopted.
And if not, then we have to make sure we do the bare minimum, which is not default on our obligations.
People immediately recognize all of those phrases mean the project is intended to give backers the bare minimum and gouge them later.
You can do the bare minimum and then you can make some progressively harder decisions to solve the problem more and more.
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No internet, no 3G and the bare minimum of mobile phone reception.
The system tray, to the right of the Taskbar, contains only the bare minimum of items, such as the network and battery indicators.
It consists of only 800 fighting infantrymen in an area 250 miles (400km) by 250 miles, a battalion fewer than many thought the bare minimum.
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It is the bare minimum of your job description, after all.
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But in political terms, the new stridency among senior British Muslims is probably the bare minimum of assertiveness they could show while keeping any credibility with their grassroots.
What has been agreed to already is the bare minimum.
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And here HTC seem to have done the bare minimum.
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While separate accounts are now possible for more Americans, who are flush with bull market bootie, they aren't feasible for someone who can scrap together only the bare minimum investment.
The other consequence is many of the people who lose their own setup are eventually absorbed in the big box system as low-skill employees getting paid the bare minimum wage.
Greens in the Senate had included tax rebates and cheap loans for farmers who reforested degraded areas faster than the law required, or who preserved more land than the bare minimum.
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The Astros are, to some degree, a reflection of the sport's new economics, which have made it more attractive for teams that aren't competitive to invest the bare minimum in the present.
This will be the third year of steep budget cuts for most of these countries, yet policy makers in Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin think it the bare minimum to maintain market confidence.
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From health reform, Hainan wants to put pensions and industrial and commercial insurance on the little cards with the ultimate goal of reducing the use of cash and checks to the bare minimum.
In the short term, there are other options to do what we need to do at the bare minimum and then we can return in a serious way to tax reform and entitlement reform.
But this is only the bare minimum.
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The protesting employees have recently taken up a "work-to-rule" action -- in essence, performing only the bare minimum of work required by their contracts in an attempt to slow airline activity and pressure management to pay attention to their grievances.
My hope is, is that after some reflection, after we walked through all the numbers this week and we looked at all the options, that there may be some movement, some possibility, some interest to still get something more than the bare minimum done.
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And hopes that the EFSF's firepower could be increased to a trillion euros - the bare minimum deemed necessary - took a knock yesterday when its boss, Klaus Regling, said that the current turmoil in markets was limiting the EFSF's ability to raise what's needed from its current endowment of resources.
Although the technical membership of the UPFA may now be approaching the bare minimum of legislators needed to maintain a majority in the 225-seat parliament, the government is likely to be able to find a comfortable number of MPs to back its legislative agenda from among the numerous smaller parties in Sri Lanka.
We might not all agree that student loan debt should be forgiven but I think most folks are of like minds that, if the federal government continues to promote loans over grants as the way to finance college, then Americans deserve a student loan system that, at the bare minimum, empowers borrowers to take control of the debt management experience.
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If suddenly investors -- and by the way, a lot of those investors are Americans who have Treasury bills, pension funds, et cetera -- if suddenly they started thinking that we might not pay them back on time, at the very least, at the bare minimum, they would charge a much higher interest rate to allow the United States to borrow money.
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Tim Lamb of the Sport and Recreation Alliance said the two hours a week target should be the "bare minimum", adding that despite many outstanding initiatives school sport was "an issue still in need of a great deal of attention".
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