1 The government is trying to downplay the violence.

2 The government has been trying to downplay the crisis.

3 White House officials attempted to downplay the President's role in the affair.

4 I downplay the sweats, the shakes, the fever.

5 None of this is to downplay the actual and symbolic significance of Lieberman's Jewishness.

6 Such stereotypic thinking forces even black stations to downplay their blackness in order to compete for the advertising dollars.

7 One more argument downplay protectionism can be discounted.

8 Ministry and government officials downplay the April upheaval.

9 Finns are very modest and downplay their own accomplishments.

10 Which does he downplay or ignore altogether?

11 As for Mr. Ross, he tends to downplay the record and his space achievements.

12 As you interact with others, neither exaggerate nor downplay what's true for you.

13 Don't downplay the importance of engines as they will save your ship someday.

14 To downplay this bottleneck effect, the pluralization of fund raising channels can be an objective and realistic alternative.

15 To exalt Reformed alles is to downplay our central identity as Christians.

16 It's understandable that the constitution should downplay central authority and boost the notion of local authorities.

17 It would be irresponsible for me to downplay the magnitude of this crisis or assure you that everything is under control.

18 They downplay the chief oddity of this one, which is that foreign forces are fighting it.

19 They downplay, or justify, the proliferation of white supremacist - tinged paramilitary groups, police violence, and racial profiling.

20 Also on hand is Becker, still a lieutenant and still trying to downplay his friendship with Rockford.

21 Also, in focusing on two-year institutions, I do not mean to downplay the role of four-year colleges and universities.

22 I was also concerned at the tendency of some to downplay the effects of excess weight on health.

23 The humiliation of defeat in 1982 caused Argentina to downplay the dispute.

24 I could no longer talk to the broader financial community or to investors at large, only to institutional investors who were clients, and as a result, banks could more easily downplay their problems.

25 On visits home I had to make a conscious decision whether to exaggerate or downplay the exoticism.

26 Traders remain cautions as German policy makers continue to downplay expectations for this weekend summit. Trader are guardedly watching Frances CDS climbing and yield spreads widening.

27 Balance and repair the grease secrete, developping the function of downplay the dye effectively.

28 One thing you should not do in this type of essay is downplay your accomplishments.

29 Jonathan Pershing, the US chief negotiator at Copenhagen, tried to downplay America's contribution to climate change.

30 Even New Labour tended to trumpet its market-friendly approaches and to downplay important aspects of its profound statism.

31 If someone was timid, I'd downplay my accomplishments because I didn't want them to feel uncomfortable.

32 It'should also be straight and not too curvy to downplay the roundness of the face.

33 In contrast, the education systems of today a tendency to downplay the foundational subjects.

34 To that end, Bryant did his best Wednesday to downplay any widespread team issues.