Sentence examples for with downplaying from inspiring English sources

You suggest that both must play a role, but I still came away from the book thinking that clean-power advocates might charge you with downplaying the enormous leverage that deep-pocketed fossil fuel interests now enjoy to influence, retard or otherwise manipulate the market as it stands.

Our olfactory system can play tricks on us when we're habituated to an odor that others aren't familiar with, downplaying its strength to our own nose while others might be gagging.

Apr. 28, 2017, 1 35 p.m. President Trump has treated the 100-day mark of his presidency with anxiety -- downplaying its significance, criticizing the media for under-appreciating his achievements and rolling out a flurry of public announcements aimed at conveying a sense of action.

(This is difficult with some people as they might be annoyed with you for downplaying a higher grade than they got).

Some scientists involved with monitoring the safety of Aids drugs are privately furious with GSK for downplaying the significance of one of the biggest safety trials into abacavir – one of several anti-viral drugs taken by Aids patients as part of combined HIV therapy – when the findings were published last month.

They sense that the Nordic countries are competing to improve relations with Russia and downplaying the Baltic connection.

I suspect that as it does not appear to be veto-ing the report, the DWP will try and shrug off the embarrassment it may cause (Labour will make hay with it) by downplaying the Defra exercise as a quick and dirty piece of work (indeed, the official term is Rapid Evidence Assessment, involving a few weeks' intensive work) and so almost by definition not entirely "robust".

Stenhouse piled on with additional criticism, downplaying in the Guardian article most AMS meteorologists' ability to hold informed views on global warming.

Binay, the current vice-president, has promised that he will prioritize strengthening economic ties with China while downplaying maritime disputes.

Mice with selective ablation of C/EBPβ in the skin have epidermal hyperplasia with downplay of Keratin 1 and 10 expression [13].

And Clinton, who aligned herself with the generals and Gates in the 2009 process that led to the surge, has been urging reconciliation with the Taliban, while downplaying the efficacy of further military operations.