Sentence examples for ordered to downplay from inspiring English sources

Were editorial executives ordered to downplay the story?

Has he been sent to Samui with orders to downplay crimes against tourists?

Imposture and faking it, in order to downplay men's lack of fitness for the job, has resulted in a grim encyclopaedia of calamities, the worst of which we are suffering now.

The paper offers a new framework for understanding the origin of political attitudes and preferences and how they may change over time, and presents a formal theory about how people adjust their political preferences in order to downplay cognitive dissonance, a theory that has predictive power.

They invented a new ethnic group, the Turkmen, in order to downplay Turkey's ethnic bonds and potential territorial claims to the region an absurd artifice, as all Turks were Turkmen at some point in history.

This reframing is a sort of "retconning" that the DoJ could be attempting in order to downplay its culpability in the matter, thereby weakening its case in the courts.

Plex today announced it's shutting down its troubled Plex Cloud service, via a forum post that hasn't found its way over to the company's official blog — likely a choice the company made in order to downplay the news, or avoid media scrutiny.

But again, that study would presumably have been based on the partial view of information diffusion on its platform that Twitter has otherwise complained does not represent the full picture (i.e. in order to downplay other studies that have suggested bots were successfully spreading Brexit-related political disinformation).

One young man said his parents had begged him to shave off his beard in order to downplay the fact that he was Muslim.

The press was also under orders to downplay the Kristallnacht, describing general events at local level only, with prohibition against depictions of individual events.

This gentle, back-to-school trivialization of racism in order to downplay white guilt is not just symbolic of the normalization of the same, "innocent me" sort of racism that voted for Trump behind curtains, it's also representative of the kind of racial conversation that an entire industry (some white reviewers included) is looking to elevate.