The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, has continued to emphasise the government's regional work in combating people smuggling while attempting to downplay the effect of diplomatic tensions with Indonesia.
Officials also sought to downplay the effect of their decision to remove the loan default metric, arguing that schools will be required to disclose their past students' loan default rates to prospective students.
None of this is to downplay the effects of Wonder Woman itself.
The film is less about the effects of CTE than about how the NFL tried first to cast doubt on and then to downplay those effects.
The 2011 review said that while it "does not seek to downplay the effects young offenders have on the community," putting young people in detention "is not a medium to long term solution to reducing crime".
Churchill was caught in a difficult position; he knew that maintaining civilian morale was key to winning the war, but it would be obvious if the government tried to downplay the effects of the bombing.
While it would be cruel to downplay the effects of episodes such as these on a person's life, professionals are often reluctant to intervene, at least early on: it is natural to experience difficult emotions in those contexts and to pathologise these feelings is unhelpful.
The White House has been trying to downplay the effects of the unprecedented immigration ban amid global outcry.
People--those who either deny the climate science or try to downplay the effects it's having--say a few degrees of warming aren't going to make much difference.
While it is generally accepted that partial redundancy is an intrinsic property of complex networks 96, 97, it may also be an adaptive trait, serving, for example to downplay the effects of noise on transcriptional outputs 98.
