Churchill was caught in a difficult position; he knew that maintaining civilian morale was key to winning the war, but it would be obvious if the government tried to downplay the effects of the bombing.
While it would be cruel to downplay the effects of episodes such as these on a person's life, professionals are often reluctant to intervene, at least early on: it is natural to experience difficult emotions in those contexts and to pathologise these feelings is unhelpful.
While it is generally accepted that partial redundancy is an intrinsic property of complex networks 96, 97, it may also be an adaptive trait, serving, for example to downplay the effects of noise on transcriptional outputs 98.
Labbadia has cleverly downplayed the effect of other prominent squad members being injured in order to motivate their replacements.
Svanberg downplayed the effect of HTML5 advances during this time frame, too, saying that they'll "eventually" be relevant alternatives to native apps, but for the next five years, the mobile app is here to stay.
Jens Greinert, who heads the deep-sea monitoring unit at GEOMAR, downplays the effect of the new seeps on the atmosphere or ocean chemistry because the magnitude of the releases is dwarfed by human-associated inputs, such as livestock, or even other marine sites.
