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1. Commission)—to deliberately downplay what happened at Fukushima
2. A 1991 federal boating tax led Coast Guard spokespersons to downplay the enforcement issue
3. In fact, in many textbooks, US and Western Civilization history have been entirely rewritten to inculcate the collectivist philosophy and to downplay the powerful motivation of independence
4. ers and entrepreneurs eager to downplay the GNU Project's
5. Parents who excessively taunt, downplay or tease their
6. I will not try to downplay the atrocities committed by German forces in Europe, which are too horrible in scope and nature to be denied
7. Intelligence, or ‘DI’, was careful to downplay any ‘internal involvement’ with the FBI
8. Graisco’s muscles tightened at the question; it was visibly apparent that the question had struck a sensitive issue even though he attempted to downplay the significance of the comment
9. My psychologist at the time tried to downplay my fatalistic interpretation, but I never bought it
10. So, the winning strategy is to downplay my success to develop my equation with him
11. ‘Who says that, but all should downplay the manifestations of their faith in the public arena at least,’ said Raja Rao
12. This is not to downplay the other’s problem
13. The client is guided to be in a relaxed condition then he was asked to imagine from the very least fearful scenario to progressive area armed with relaxation styles to downplay anxiety
14. “Are you okay?” She could see from the pinched expression on his face that he was hurting, but he was trying to downplay it for her sake
15. wise to downplay the incident, while still suggesting caution
16. merely honest mistakes while others were part of a concerted effort to downplay and hide the nature
17. I would never want to downplay Chris’s military achievements, but the legacy that he leaves is so much more than his brilliant and amazing military records
18. ” This wasn’t the usual prerace “downplay your chances” banter that both he and Al Ulbrickson regularly engaged in
19. Confirmation bias is the tendency to overweight information that reinforces our beliefs and to ignore or downplay information that contradicts
20. Whereas it is not our intention to downplay the importance of option volatility, we believe that these studies are responsible for much of the confusion and intimidation of option trading
21. I will stop there as some of these people are my colleagues and I do not wish to downplay their work
22. While some top investors downplay the importance they put on assessing management capability, a greater number spend considerable time and use a variety of methods to learn about top managers' track records, their skills, their thought processes, and their motivations
1. downplayed his own role in the sequence of events
2. Jason then said something about Nick’s behavior at the observatory, but downplayed it
3. downplayed and withheld important information about the nuclear accident
4. in that halting, stuttery way that I found intolerable in the first two films, and downplayed the more stalker, creepy aspects of Edward’s
5. as a prophet does not mean that Jesus is downplayed or any less holy
6. Officials in Chernobyl downplayed what had
7. understated grace that downplayed her instinctive formality
8. Trifling issues were downplayed and positive points were accentuated
9. The police investigation, that in the past had downplayed the extent of the hacking scandal, was stepped up as it was realised just how widespread and serious the scandal really was
10. downplayed in the hopes of keeping everyone’s spirits elevated
11. concept of extraterrestrial life has stymied and downplayed some very clear evidence in this
12. I had for a long time thought that one of Butterfield’s motives was payback to Nixon, though he downplayed it
13. Doctors like Walter Freeman and his colleagues publicized the few success stories and downplayed the failures—failures that ranged from tragic loss of cognition to fatalities—which occurred with frightening frequency
14. And except for Vietnam veterans, many patients who suffered from post-traumatic illnesses had their traumas questioned, downplayed, or even denied; they were sometimes told it didn’t matter if their traumas were real or imaginary, for the purposes of treatment, something we would never consider saying to someone traumatized in combat
15. She downplayed it, but it had been her idea
16. The European colonialists often downplayed this idea and tried to pretend that imperial rule was based on ideas of common identity, but this didn’t fool many of the colonised people
17. Fundamental indexing is a value tilt, or systematic value strategy, although early articles downplayed this aspect
1. And if the book downplays or