The phrase 'highlight the downsides of' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when attempting to point out the negative aspects of a particular situation or idea. For example, "This new technology could revolutionize our industry. However, we should also highlight the downsides of implementing this technology, such as the need to retrain staff and the high initial cost."
With a year to go before the UK's current migration restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian people are lifted, government ministers are considering mounting an advertising campaign in both countries to highlight the downsides of life in Britain, with a view to discouraging any would-be immigrants.
For the critics of guidance, the events in Canada highlight the downsides of a commitment to low rates: it tacitly encourages consumers to load up on debt.
It lets them highlight the downside of every trade-off without owning any downside of their own.
The agency's Web site, for example, highlights only the downsides of check cashers and payday lenders, and only the benefits of banking (benefits, by the way, that most low-income people don't have enough money to enjoy).
Now Microsoft's earnings shortfall has highlighted the downside of paying top prices for growth companies.
A CIVIL case filed by the Justice Department last week against Bank of America highlights the downside of nondisclosure.
But the cutoff highlights the downside of relying on information stored only in the cloud of the Internet, particularly for businesses that pay to use Google Apps, including Gmail, Docs for word processing and Drive for file storage.
Going into the crisis, co-operative banks had bigger capital cushions on average than privately owned ones, which are generally under pressure not to hold more capital than necessary.But the crisis has also highlighted the downside of this structure.
Second, the Bush disaster both highlighted the downside of nominating a frontman and led conservatives to embrace the conclusion that Bush failed primarily because he abandoned the true conservative creed after having been such an able spokesman for it in the 2000 campaign.
In counterpoint, the following example highlights the downside of fixating on technical success: subject G10 asserted, 'The main lesson is that you need to stay customer focused.
Given the dearth of independent data, J&J, Lilly and their rivals resort to a form of marketing vitriol, highlighting the downside of competing drugs.
