| Rebecca Cattle netted the opener after great play down the right by Lucy McNamara. |
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| Rather than play down the danger, he happily reported that the entire area is littered with countless land mines. |
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| They were obviously trying to play down the gay content and cross over to straight audiences. |
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| He needs ball winners of the quality of Keano to allow him to play down the right. |
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| Gavin Mahon may play down the right with either Nielsen or Stephen Glass down the left. |
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| All the stories are datelined in Moscow, and Duranty goes to some lengths to play down the crisis. |
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| If you were looking for a striker to play down the middle then Alan was your man. |
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| Many actors play down the intellectual side of their work, and talk instead about operating on emotion and instinct. |
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| The English-Canadian media, however, displayed a tendency to play down Richard's cultural and political significance. |
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| He refused to play down Pakistan's chances and call India the stronger contenders. |
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| A year earlier, the company was in the midst of a painful restructuring and trying to play down media reports of its death spiral. |
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| He tried to play down his importance to the team, saying he is still young and needs space to develop. |
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| In fact, women who are beautiful and brainy often try to play down their intelligence. |
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| A curious mixture of vanity and insecurity, she is keen to play down her on-screen image. |
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| Razor cutting also creates surface texture that you can emphasize with texture creams or play down by using a flat iron. |
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| In the first hours, both the company and local authorities attempted to play down the extent of the tragedy, denying that many miners were in the mine at the time of the fire. |
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| Business executives often tend to play down the importance of a critical situation. |
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| The next day the same ACFTU bureaucrats issued a public apology, while trying to play down their role in the assault. |
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| During the chaos in the monkey cage, Chen saw something out of the corner of his eye that he would later try to play down but in his heart of hearts he knew to be true. |
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| The political leaders of Serbia make light of and play down the tense situation that has developed. |
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| This also means that they may not deny, trivialize or otherwise play down the harm caused by such violence by referring to these notions. |
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| In the early postwar years, many thought it better to play down this truth because it demanded far too great an effort of self-mastery. |
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| Let us not ignore or play down the signals we have recently received from a large section of public opinion in Europe. |
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| Some companies play down their links with foreign partners in order to advertize their European credentials. |
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| The British governors attempted to play down the mutual prejudices, and in this were somewhat successful. |
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| Beijing is busy trying to play down Taiwan's advantages in the eyes of the world, whether Europe, Latin America or Africa. |
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| The Turkish authorities play down these events, considering their importance to be overstated. |
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| A number of points should be raised to play down the excessively positive image that people generally have of public development aid. |
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| Treaty serves substantially to play down the military aspects of the debate. |
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| It is important not to play down the problems of today, but equally important to work out how to turn these problems into new opportunities. |
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| His strategy is to play down expectations for a breakthrough while hinting with ever increasing menace that the longer it takes the harder it will be to end the deadlock. |
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| But coming from them, that could also be seen as an attempt to play down the hunting connection, almost as if they were ashamed of holding such unfashionable views. |
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| He tries ever so hard to play down the significance of this glaring omission from an otherwise impeccable CV but he doth protest too much, methinks. |
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| O'Rowe's adaptation strips the play down to its essentials and presents a spare and tight historical drama shorn of any excess speechifying and wandering. |
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| More fundamentally, irrespective of obvious disagreements, it appears that in a large number of cases the Member States try to play down the significance of the observations in the Annual Report. |
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| However, we must play down this news somewhat. |
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| Both sides will play down the importance of tomorrow's whizz-bang encounter. |
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| Another youth was stabbed, and nearly paralysed for life, by two other English boys. But officials in both Britain and Spain are inclined to play down rowdiness and violence in Ibiza. |
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| Sometimes you hear of organizations doing social justice grantmaking that try to play down what they're doing when they're fundraising so that it doesn't sound too threatening to people. |
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| And Western capitals sought to play down the Russian invasion. |
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| So now he needs to play down the significance of that breach of promise. |
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| Major efforts are made to rid our textbooks of out-of-date stereotypes that play down the role of women and, instead, to emphasise the importance of women to development. |
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| Following the uproar, Ajmal Obaid Abidy, spokesman for Ghani, attempted to play down its significance, saying other memorandums had been signed with the ISI in the past, but he did not say what areas they covered. |
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| Such a situation would strengthen Iran's position to the extent that it could play down the importance of its alliance with Syria, and Damascus would thus lose all its political influence in the region. |
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| Now the new Congress Party Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y. S. Rajshekhar Reddy is trying to play down the new party's demands for a new state. |
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| Ostpolitik was a by-product of the German decision in the Harmel negotiations to play down the issue of reunification in favour of improving relations with East Germany and the Soviet Union. |
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| The centenary celebrations will probably play down the conjugal row until June 29, when the pres ident and poets will join in a panegyric to Saint-Exupéry. |
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| We could go on to say many things but we must not in any way undervalue or play down the importance of Mr Blair's speech this afternoon, nor the speech he made on 23 June of this same year. |
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| It would be naïve to play down the importance of human rights. |
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| During New Labour attempts were made to play down the role of the song, however it still remains in use. |
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| So with this in mind, laydeez, play down the girlie thang and create a room suitable for both sexes. |
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| The Liberals and the New Democrats are trying to play down the pact they signed with the only party in this House that is an avowed and zealous opponent of national unity. |
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| Playing a part in his huge popularity is that, whatever plaudits and success come his way, Villa never fails to play down his own role and heap praise on those around him. |
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| Other officials, however, play down this concern. |
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| Senior Pakistani officials play down the threat. |
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| Administration officials play down such concerns. |
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| However, they play down these observations on the basis of four arguments. |
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| They are trying to play down what we are doing here and to confuse people. |
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| Today the Mirror reveals how Whitehall officials rewrote a letter SEVEN TIMES to play down the inquiry head's links with a Tory grandee at the centre of the scandal. |
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| Children may play up one division, but they may not play down. |
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| We came here with a lot of injuries and a lot of lads had knocks which we had to play down but credit to every one of them I thought they were outstanding. |
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| The side is in desperate need for a goalscorer to play down the middle. |
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| The party was trying to play down there signation yesterday. |
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| The essay attempts to play down the role slavery had in the Civil War. |
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