This news comes just days before the new President takes office – an administration with a reputation for downplaying the effects of climate change (or ignoring its existence entirely).
Downplaying the effects of current economic difficulties and stock market volatility, Xi could have, but didn't, compare them to the 2007-12 U.S. and Western financial crisis.
Labbadia has cleverly downplayed the effect of other prominent squad members being injured in order to motivate their replacements.
The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, has continued to emphasise the government's regional work in combating people smuggling while attempting to downplay the effect of diplomatic tensions with Indonesia.
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.
Officials also sought to downplay the effect of their decision to remove the loan default metric, arguing that schools will be required to disclose their past students' loan default rates to prospective students.
Manager, Physiotherapy (Rural/Regional) However, one allied health manager downplayed the effect of professional registration on workplace learning: "… [national registration] requirements haven't really come into … planning of learning and continuing professional development at all.
Previous Fennoscandian moose studies have calculated a temporal and spatial variation in the timing of oestrus [ 5, 11], but no such variation (between areas or years) was observed in the present study, which downplays the effect of the surrounding environment on timing of oestrus in the present study.
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.
