Don't downplay it with an attitude that you can subsist on four hours a night.
In his interview with the FBI, Papadopoulos allegedly tried to downplay his meetings with the professor with ties to Russia, calling him "a nothing".
In his interview with the FBI, Papadopoulos allegedly tried to downplay his meetings with the professor with ties to Russia, calling him "a nothing". In reality, Papadopoulos knew of the professor's "substantial connections to Russian government officials" and used the professor's connection to try to connect the campaign with the Russian government.
But Mr Sharp downplays comparisons with Britain's East India Company, which ran a private empire with its own navy.
By Tuesday night, as a closer-than-expected race appeared likely, Republicans were already coming up with various reasons to blame Saccone and downplay the results, with one GOP strategist complaining about the candidate's facial hair.
For this reason, even similarly-inclined philosophers often sought to distance their views from Spinoza's, positioning themselves as critics or downplaying familiarity with his texts.
For example, decomposing a system into its constituents to understand the features manifested by the system promotes a dissection of the causal interactions of the localized constituents, while downplaying interactions with elements external to the system (Wimsatt 1980; Bechtel and Richardson 1993).
Deasy initially downplayed difficulties with the new records system across the district, but then assigned a team of senior administrators to address them.
Rostetter faulted the district for "lack of transparency" in initially downplaying issues with the new system, including in a news release issued Aug. 15 that said the program's "glitches have affected less than 1percentt of students overall".
Rostetter also faulted the district for "lack of transparency" in initially downplaying problems with the new system, including in an Aug. 15 news release that said the program's "glitches have affected less than 1% of students overall".
