I don't buy it, and indeed I think it would be terrible tactics for the Democrats to try to soft-pedal their support for the legislation heading into this fall's election.
"Their objective is to try to soft-land the market," says Huang. "It'll be interesting to see whether they can do it".
I'm not trying to soft-pedal the very real pathologies of the modern conservative movement.
Most of the wits are on one side, no matter how nicely Mr. Greene tries to soft-pedal his brilliance.
Standard Chartered learned the hard way that prosecutors take these agreements quite seriously when an executive tries to soft-pedal any corporate wrongdoing.
He did not appear in any rush to grant an audience to a contingent trying to soft-soap him into three months of a pennant race in New York.
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. – Rick Santorum has tried to soft-pedal his endorsement of Mitt Romney in 2008, saying he did so because he preferred Mr. Romney to the leading Republican alternative at the time, Senator John McCain.
The executive director of the state's thoroughbred-racing commission, John Wayne, tried to soft-pedal the decision, noting that Clenbuterol is a therapeutic, rather than a performance-enhancing, medication, and that the incident should not tarnish Jones's reputation.
But although he tries to soft-pedal the racism of the Empire, he cannot disguise the prejudices of the colonists, and sometimes the anecdotes he cites to illustrate a non-racist world view seem to prove the opposite.
Then, having confessed a failure of sympathy, and having earlier called for restraint in the face of "the seduction of binary thinking", Mr Almond hastens to repeat his team's tendentious good-guy/bad-guy narrative: I'm not trying to soft-pedal the very real pathologies of the modern conservative movement.
