Government and many scientists have downplayed or completely ignored the negative social, ethical, and economic impacts of this new technology.
Others have downplayed political choices, so he puts them front and center.
Its leaders have downplayed culture to broaden their appeal to include immigrant groups and not just native French-speakers.
"I believe that the economics profession and the policy community have downplayed inequality for too long," Lagarde said.
Some have downplayed Newman's influence, suggesting that the business council would meet only a few times a year.
Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best portraying it as the idle musings of a brilliant and ever-restless mind.
In the past, banks have downplayed foreclosure abuses by noting that affected homeowners were, after all, late on their payments, as if that justifies harassment and worse.
Both Egypt and Russia have downplayed suggestions that the crash is linked to terrorism and dismissed claims of responsibility by an Islamist group in Sinai.
The lawsuit, however, served as a smoking gun – a rare mention of a database that Canadian government officials have downplayed to the point of secrecy.
What many critics of identity politics are implying is that progressives have downplayed class politics to their own detriment and the country's.
Both Iran and the US have downplayed hopes of a quick breakthrough.
