For years, historians downplayed the difficulties that faced governors like Yates and Morton in the Old Northwest, preferring to portray them as either unscrupulous local despots or unreasonable whiners who had to be calmed and managed by Lincoln.
It alleges (wrongly, says Levy) that the company downplayed the difficulties faced by doctors who use Visudyne in being reimbursed by insurance companies, because it knew that a lack of reimbursements would hurt sales and earnings.
Deasy initially downplayed the difficulties, but soon assembled a senior team to fix a malfunctioning student records system that was the major cause of the problem.
Carson however, who reported personally to Hughes, downplayed the difficulties and blamed the heavy casualties on Alderson's leadership, indicating that the Division had only been saved from annihilation by the actions of Richard Turner and Garnet Hughes.
And I may have downplayed the difficulty: the race proper, including kayaking (6K), mountain biking (22K), hill running (12K) and two "mystery challenges", such as the waterfall swim, takes between four and six hours.
Chatterbug faces a wide range of competitors like Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, Busoo, Babbel, and HelloTalk — some with deep pockets and a penchant for downplaying the difficulty of reaching fluency.
Those complaints greatly overstate the difficulties and downplay the progress in what was long a very tense relationship.
Mr Santos will probably have difficulty continuing to downplay the issue, though.
Yet local authorities have sought to downplay the problem, and many of the victims have encountered difficulties when they tried to report what happened to the police.
Officials continued to downplay the protests.
