| Nevertheless, he later downplayed the significance of Mendelism and held to Lamarckian ideas throughout his life. |
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| But the fact that it was a lame-duck president making the statement was somewhat downplayed in the news. |
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| Anti-war activism by veterans over the years has been largely forgotten or downplayed. |
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| Even as the risks of cyberterrorism are overstated and overhyped, the risks of cybercrime are downplayed and minimized. |
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| The story is built up through successive emotional crescendos, immediately downplayed by abrupt narrative shifts. |
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| If a compliment did get thrown your way, you either accepted it silently or downplayed it until it sounded more like an insult. |
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| At others they have sought to discredit the report by suggesting it downplayed the actual extent of such connections. |
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| China's economic geography was formerly heavily shaped by a socialist ideology that downplayed agglomeration economies. |
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| He downplayed the importance of developmental constraints, of mass extinctions, and species selection. |
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| I think it's very important, and I think it was downplayed at the beginning by the administration. |
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| He does not seem to smoke or drink, although he has downplayed his abstemiousness since joining the drinks group. |
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| The second is that pharmacist involvement in the distributive aspects of pharmacy practice is downplayed in professional curricula. |
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| I do not think we have ever, at any stage, downplayed the risk to children, but it is important that we do not overplay the risk to children. |
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| The original had a thin premise and an anorexic plot, but delivered brilliantly choreographed fight scenes and downplayed gun violence. |
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| In the meantime capital flight, the exodus of businessmen and the brain drain will be downplayed by the Government. |
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| On the witness stand, De Jesus downplayed the amount of cooperation his group ever received from Arambula. |
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| They downplayed distinctions between the three types, arguing that any time crossover voting occurs, nonmembers could be instrumental in determining a party's nominees. |
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| Sin and damnation are downplayed, and the distinctions between heaven and earth, the profane and the sacred, God's grace and our efforts tend to be fudged. |
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| But she downplayed the achievement of having been head girl, an appointment by school authorities. |
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| The absolute power of a smile is often underestimated and usually downplayed or misunderstood. |
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| But she nevertheless downplayed their differences as any obstacle to joining forces. |
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| Jefferies also downplayed the post-match confrontation between Lennon and McCoist. |
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| Due to the inherent sense of humility in the Canadian character we downplayed that reason. |
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| He also downplayed a suggestion that the comparatively high price of organic food will hinder the sector's growth. |
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| Where possible, the legal consequences or significance of the age criteria should be reduced or downplayed. |
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| As its financial base has eroded, the NCC has limited and downplayed its role and possible contribution to national outreach activities. |
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| It may inadvertently lead to the problems of these families being underestimated, downplayed or obscured. |
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| Risks are often downplayed or simply accepted without any associated plan for mitigation. |
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| The conflict that naturally emerges should not be downplayed, but used to your team's advantage. |
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| Meanwhile, students were coming to the school office with reports a weapon was on the property, but downplayed the incident saying the weapon was only an air gun. |
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| In late 2007 Romney traveled to Texas AM to soothe evangelicals with a speech that downplayed the distinctiveness of Mormonism. |
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| Daylyt downplayed the gimmick, later claiming on Twitter that it was his way of saying he was finished with battle rap. |
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| Though Johnson downplayed its significance coming in, the billing of this matchup as the Mariners past versus their future certainly gave him every reason to be fired up. |
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| First, the television news programs downplayed and minimized it. |
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| She downplayed the racial element as did the mcbride family attorney Gerald Thurswell in an interview with The Daily Beast. |
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| The power of religious belief and commitment that motivated women to enter a sisterhood and engage in social activism is often downplayed in historians' accounts. |
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| Their unusual behaviour is downplayed and less frequent. |
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| A Canadian-born historian who now lives in Warsaw, she takes an unashamedly polonocentric approach, rebutting the views of unnamed historians who, she hints darkly, have downplayed Polish valour and suffering. |
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| The developing countries' argument of food security was downplayed then. |
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| The Commission asked CNSC staff to elaborate on how they are going to ensure that the importance of problems found at specific sites is not downplayed as a result of consolidating the reporting on all three sites. |
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| Naik on Wednesday downplayed the Chinese threat, saying there have not been air incursions along the Line of Actual Control. |
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| The design of the project downplayed convenience in favor of formal concerns in both the setting of the house and its relation to its environment. |
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| In a single interview with state media, a Vietnamese deputy foreign minister responsible for the negotiations downplayed Vietnam's loss of major cultural landmarks, including the Ai Nam gate and the Ban Gioc waterfall. |
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| This, however, was downplayed and largely forgotten. |
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| Although conservation partners and managers operating on these sites initially downplayed the scale of the situation, they have recently begun to think and try to find solutions to this problem. |
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| Her mission is to persuade others that a godless universe makes no sense. Reviewers in evangelical magazines who lionise Schaeffer have ignored or downplayed Ms Pearcey's book. |
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| These Quaker men downplayed the evangelical Quaker belief in the atonement of Christ on the Cross at Calvary. |
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| The National Trust for Scotland has downplayed the suggestion on the grounds that evidence is insufficient to support the claim. |
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| Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed. |
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| The surgical risks of a fifth Cesarean section also cannot be downplayed. |
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| Second, the term 'lifestyle,' with its emphasis on personal choices, was characterized by some critics as 'victim blaming' because it downplayed the social roots of unhealthy behaviours at the individual level. |
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| Shorten downplayed the impact on the opposition of Malcolm Turnbull becoming prime minister and minced no words in farewelling the newly ousted Liberal party leader. |
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| That's why Bush's handlers downplayed the former while playing up the latter. |
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| Although teaching of evolution was not forbidden in Kansas schools, critics said it was downplayed so much that the state looked backward. |
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| This tour downplayed the dangers and immorality of drug use. |
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| In this way, the responsibilities of ship-owners are downplayed, as well as of all the bodies involved in the issuance of seaworthiness certificates to vessels. |
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| That would have removed many plaintiffs who played between 1994 and 2010 the period during which, players contend, the NFL knew about the long-term effects of concussions but downplayed them. |
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| In the past, the potential benefits of DBT were downplayed because the method was computationally intense and took far too long for use in a clinical setting. |
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| The caretaker manager Paul Hart, whose own future will be resolved at a board meeting this week, downplayed his contribution to preserving their Premier League status. |
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| But, this morning, when May was asked about the manifesto promise in an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she downplayed the significance of this pledge. |
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| It wisely downplayed the book's rather haphazard detective work in favour of warm byplay between Powell and Loy, who were cannily cast as Nick and Nora Charles. |
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| He downplayed the impact of the government's plan. |
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| The price we pay for having this engagement should not be downplayed. |
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| In a cover story for The Advocate, Bernhard downplayed the significance of playing the first regular TV character to come out. |
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| The relevance of nuclear disarmament cannot be ignored or downplayed. |
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| I believe Holt even downplayed the environmental destruction that has been taking place for the last 20 years. |
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| The Beards downplayed slavery, abolitionism, and issues of morality. |
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| Amorth's warnings about Potter significantly downplayed the warnings. |
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| The press saw its lofty role to be the advancement of civic republicanism based on public service, and downplayed the liberal, individualistic goal of making a profit. |
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