Rodgers sought to downplay concerns about his health.
Prayuth sought to downplay concerns about Article 44, saying nobody had made much fuss about it until now.
Last week, HP Chief Executive Carly Fiorina Carly Fiorina attempted to downplay concerns about HP's exposure to the horrible PC business by saying the acquisition "is about so much more than PCs".
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet sought to downplay concerns that Greece could ever default on its debt at a press conference following the ECB's rate decision on Thursday.
No birth control method (barring abstention) is 100% effective of course but, as we've reported previously, Natural Cycles' aggressive marketing and PR has lacked nuance and attempted to downplay concerns about the complexity of its system and the chance of failure even though the product's performance is impacted by multiple individual factors — from illness, to irregular periods.
Swinton used feminism to downplay concerns about race.
Mayor Bloomberg was only trying to downplay concerns among Republican volunteers that protesters might disrupt their proceedings.
After Boeing announced its joint venture to produce airplane seats with Adient, Safran executives tried to downplay concerns about how the partnership would affect its seat manufacturing business.
Epidemiologists consider paint and dust to be the more significant sources of lead exposure, but public water systems have used those factors to downplay concerns about water lead.
Instead of continuing to downplay concerns, Michigan has acted to distribute bottled water, filters and funds for extra school nurses and case management for children at risk of elevated blood lead levels.
This conclusion, announced by the bank on Wednesday, amounts to a reversal of its previous efforts to downplay concerns raised by human rights activists and others working on behalf of the dispossessed -- people evicted from their land, sometimes in violent ways, to make way for World Bank-financed initiatives.
