Sentence examples for soft-pedaling the issue from inspiring English sources

XXXXXXXXXXXX told Poloff: "Mumbai attacks can be described as the last wake-up call for the Indian nation-state which has been soft-pedaling the issue for long".

And Obama, who largely soft-pedaled the issue this year, was little help.

In meetings with his staff, Mr. Spitzer rebuffed suggestions that he soft-pedal the issue or deploy surrogates to make his case.

It should stop soft-pedalling the issue and order the banks to make refunds in appropriate cases where it is established that "illegal" charges have been made.

The Norwegian director denied that the biopic of the pioneering British codebreaker and computer scientist soft-pedalled the issue because of a fear of limiting the film's box office, currently at $160m£103m3m) worldwide.

Both writers state that ideas to "soft-pedal" the issue were fetched to them, including eliminating Karma's lesbian kiss, having it off-panel, or Northstar never actually stating his sexual orientation.

"I doubt that you … would tolerate the on-going harassment, loss of sleep, the use of your yard as a latrine, risk to life and limb and harm to your daily life which is now visited every day on residents living close to Venice Beach," Ryavec wrote in response to a column of mine that he thought soft-pedaled the issues.

Now he's soft-pedaling the "two New Yorks" theme.

And let's stop soft-pedaling the truth about the slave camps.

By then, the administration had begun soft-pedaling the "dirty bomb" story, which it described as "loose talk" rather than an imminent plot.

There should be no soft-pedaling the fact that there is a big problem: that they are not meeting expectations.