Sentence examples for downplay conflicts from inspiring English sources

They tend to downplay conflicts within the profession because it robs them of authority and no one would grasp the issues as easily as, say, arguing for stimulus.

Malkmus has often tried to downplay the conflict.

Before Brown, he shows, Southern politics was dominated by moderate Democrats, who generally downplayed racial conflicts.

Co-writer/ director Malgorzata Szumowska, improving upon 2011's Elles, downplays the conflicts in a scenario apparently ripe for torrid melodrama, allowing the story and characters to reveal themselves at their own pace.

Pyne, who was standing nearby during the state ministers' media conference, sought to downplay the conflict, saying there was nothing new in disputes between federal and state governments over funding and he expected ministers to argue strongly on behalf of their states.

A 2015 royal commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse found that Houston Jr had failed to report the allegations to the police and had tried to downplay his conflict of interest.

Slavin downplays the conflict as a misperception about spending priorities.

It specialises in "Eurogames", which emphasise strategy over showiness, downplay luck and conflict, lean towards economic rather than martial themes and strive to keep all the players at the table until the game's end.

He thinks you can downplay the pain of conflict by conceiving of it as just another way to stay in touch that has outworn its value.

A common reaction in such exercises is for individual members to downplay the amount of conflict that occurred to minimize group embarrassment.

Witting downplayed the dispute. .