Each boy sought to minimize his own role.

The memo, the source said, was intended "as a portrayal to minimize the President's role."

But he was known to minimize his role in determining how his players played baseball.

Not that he would ever minimize his mother's role.

"She goes to great lengths to minimize her role in the crime," he said.

Goldberg told them the story of the Cossack charge, minimizing his role in the attack.

Even though the Princess obviously did her best to minimize his role in the affair.

A loquacious man, he both minimizes his own role and portrays himself as a central target.

This would minimize the fellows' role in decision making.

The acting master may well be seizing an opportunity to minimize his role, or actually make him out to have been a fool.