If a contractor simply reacts to events that disclose potentially significant consequences or downplays noncompliances which did not result in significant consequences to worker safety and health, such contractor actions do not constitute the type of proactive behavior necessary to prevent significant events from occurring and thereby to improve worker safety and health.
Management continues to blame cyclical factors for the bulk of the company's challenges, downplaying the significant risk from structural shifts in the education business.
As for her history-making nomination, Hallquist acknowledged that it is "significant" and "pioneering", but downplayed the importance in favor of the issues.
But on Monday, the Kremlin sought to downplay the significant of the greeting, with Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling reporters that it was simply because the Saudi king and the Russian president had good relations.
I wouldn't expect the press to downplay any significant increase in violence in the way that they did the Bin Laden message sent on the eve of the 2004 election (most major news organizations never disclosed that Bin Laden appeared to be threatening states that voted for Bush).
But an official at the Democratic Governors Association downplayed any significant impact on Carter's fundraising.
In an email to VICE, Wavegarden downplayed how significant the effect of wave pools on surfing will be.
Several members leaving a candidate forum on Wednesday downplayed any significant ideological differences between the two camps.
In the discussion section, we highlight ecologically important results and downplay statistically significant, yet ecologically negligible results.
Despite this, the architects of the original EBM paradigm explicitly downplayed several significant components of the decision-making process: "Evidence-based medicine de-emphasizes intuition, unsystematic clinical experience, and pathophysiologic rationale... and stresses the examination of evidence from clinical research" [ 23].
She does understand why actors and actresses with significant others might want to downplay it, though, and bragging about getting paid to film a pseudo-sex scene might not resonate with those outside the biz.
