America belittles the new evidence as "low-confidence": the agents may have been spilled accidentally, by conventional shells detonating stray chemical stocks.
Many social media users are ridiculing the campaign, arguing that it belittles genuine cases of discrimination.
He belittles the interviewer ("will you listen to me instead of babbling?") and calls several arguments he's clearly become tired of hearing "bullshit", which isn't exactly diplomatic.
This foolish notion belittles Iraq's suffering under the dictator.
The decision "belittles the Serb victims and makes them worthless," said Ivica Dacic, Serbia's prime minister.
Your article belittles the value added to society by health professionals such as doctors.
And it belittles the efforts of those admirable Japanese working alongside others in the world's dangerous places to help rebuild communities where people have sometimes suffered the same wartime traumas as the "comfort women"—victims of organised rape, in any other language than prime-ministerial Japanese.Japan is not unique in its reluctance to confront a grim past.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] parliamentary workSIR – I welcome Charlemagne's discussion about the European Parliament, though his claim that the European Union "deals mainly with arcane regulatory questions" somewhat belittles our increased influence and powers (March 17th).
He also belittles the much younger Juan Jose Ibarretxe, head of the Basques' regional government, as a mere cypher, instead of building him up—as many advised Mr Aznar to do—as a more flexible figure with whom he might profitably do business.
He belittles his large philosophical gifts, finds publication an agony and worries to correspondents that his work is rot.Mr Hardy says that these letters represent perhaps a fourth of those Berlin wrote in 1946-60.
Shortly the economy, battered in recent years not by "shock therapy" but by the legacy of decades of communist incompetence, should register an increase in recorded output, the first since the collapse of the Soviet Union and this official measure belittles the true improvement.
