"Damage limitation" refers to actions or strategies aimed at minimizing the negative consequences or harm caused by a certain situation or mistake.
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In terms of the championship, the British GP was looking like being a case
of damage limitation for Ferrari as Lewis Hamilton shot off into the lead whilst Sebastian Vettel dropped behind Max Verstappen at the start and couldn't get past.
LEEDS will be looking
for damage limitation when they take on Fulham, Championship expert David Prutton believes.
Arsene now appears to be in
damage limitation mode as he tries to reduce the repercussions of his actions, in which he is said to have pushed Anthony Taylor amidst his frustrations, and refused to move himself to the stands.
It was a bitterly cold return for Benitez, whose attempts
at damage limitation against the free - scoring Liverpool lasted until five minutes before the break.
At the end of the day, the negotiations between the UK and the EU on the withdrawal agreement, and on the future relations agreement, would be one long exercise
in damage limitation.
First of all, limiting your dogs movement to just one room of the house or even a specifically designed dog cage can act as a form of
damage limitation with regards to your home and will also teach your dog that they have done something wrong.
Less than 10 minutes later we doubled our lead, through the man of the moment Theo Walcott once again, and it was starting to look
like damage limitation measures should be put in place by the Welsh side.
provided they can maintain a professional code we'll come closer to
achieving damage limitation so far as expectations on the field nobody wants to see arsenal getting a hiding, again.
sorry but no chance of a result against city they will destroy us just look at the way we defended against swansea they caused us problems and they are a average team city with there pace and movement will expose all our weaknesses and will be
damage limitation job.
the second after the harsh red card was
just damage limitation but still instead of going with 2 forwards and DM subs I should bring gabriel in CB and put LeCoq — xhaka — Ramsey in front and then Ox — theo in front and Alexis or Lucas up front not to be so open and at the end we paid the price.
But the fairytale beginning to Villeneuve's F1 career came crashing back to Earth in the closing stages when an oil leak meant he would have to go
into damage limitation mode.
Damage limitation until we can open the cheque book which we know Arsene will not do other than for some second - rate player who probably isn't even a defender!
I have read various team news speculation during the week about formations and lineups which range from
pragmatic damage limitation to the more bizarre including suggestions of playing Zabaleta at centre back or in midfield; strange that those having criticised Bilic for playing players out of position would believe that such an idea would have any more legs than the player himself.
For instance, official correspondence about autopsy results
revealed damage limitation attempts about the fact that several prisoners in a Kenyan camp were beaten to death, and did not die by drinking contaminated water as initially claimed.
The apology is being viewed as a major strategic shift in approach from the coalition's junior party, as it
seeks damage limitation by conceding it made a major error of judgement while in opposition.
Lord Mandelson led a
desperate damage limitation exercise, pleading that the Prime Minister was «slightly tired» and «letting off steam» but admitting there could be «no justification» for his remarks.
Senior Tory party figures launched a
major damage limitation exercise late on Wednesday night when it became clear that the documents had been leaked to the BBC hours before they were due to be released publicly by the Commons public administration select committee.
For anyone seeking to improve their health, fitness and physical appearance this is something of a metabolic disaster and as
much damage limitation as possible needs to be put into action — nutrition during Ramadan being typically a low blood sugar - induced gorge fest.
Sonia Sliger, the representative of Stephen Sliger's estate, responded that section 766.118's
damages limitation violated the Florida and U.S. constitutions.
The Texas
punitive damages limitation reasonably balances society's interests in having fairness and predictability in the law and in imposing a higher level of damages on the most egregious wrongdoers.
Subsequently, a divided en banc Federal Circuit held 6 - 5 that laches remains a defense to bar a claim for damages based on patent infringement occurring within the six -
year damages limitations period established by 35 U.S.C. § 286.
Zuckerberg's apology is seen by some as an attempt at
damage limitation after the company saw advertisers deserting the platform in recent days.
According to the Kremlin insider, COHEN now was heavily engaged in a cover up and
damage limitation operation in the attempt to prevent the full details of TRUMP's relationship with Russia being exposed.
David Cameron has dispensed with the services of Andy Coulson, the editor who left the NoW when the scandal broke, but remains vulnerable over his closeness to Rebekah Brooks, Mr Coulson's predecessor, now in charge of the Murdoch empire's
damage limitation exercise.
Spanish managers must hide behind the sofa whilst watching the highlights of their La Liga colleagues getting pulled apart at the Nou Camp every week and when they realize that their team is up next to face the Primera Division champions, they set their stall out to
damage limitation mode praying they'll keep the deficit to below 5 goals in their inevitable defeat as oppose to going out and trying to win the game.
Bournemouth made no attempt to try to chase the game, perhaps settling
for damage limitation, but it did not prove a successful policy as City continued to take the game to them.
i do nt think ox chambo will play not because of any sale but because we're going there only on
a damage limitation mission — there's so much crap going on with this club a draw at anfield will be all we can expect.
It was
damage limitation at that point.
So they knew Wednesday would be uncomfortable, that it was very unlikely they were going to win over the haters, that the target of this meeting was
damage limitation.
Sure, he lost the championship lead to his bitter rival Lucas di Grassi with one round to go, but it was still a decent result in what was a race of
damage limitation.
In David Sullivan's attempt at
a damage limitation video (that was posted on the official West Ham website) he repeated, in a style reminiscent of Theresa May's much ridiculed strong and stable slogan, the mantra as to how we all needed to pull together to drag the club out of its current plight.
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