No one is playing down the future impact of digital.
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Now his mission is playing down talk of a title.
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Now, Yahoo is vastly playing down its commitment to video.
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For now, the government is playing down that prospect. Mrs.
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Not all corporate executives are playing down the warning signs.
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With victory in sight, he is playing down his authoritarian impulses.
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Russian television followed the Kremlin's lead in playing down the event.
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Stop brushing aside and playing down its crimes and vicious aims.
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Moroccan soccer officials are privately playing down doubts about their bid.
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He was not playing down the threat posed by Islamic terrorists.
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By late Friday, Iran appeared to be playing down the explosions.
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By late Friday, Iran appeared to be playing down the explosions.
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Meanwhile, the South Korean government is playing down talk of a renegotiation.
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But playing down immigration, Mr. Goodwin said, could create more political trouble.
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But if healthy, Lin probably would have been playing down the stretch.
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The party's leader has been rebuked for playing down Germany's Nazi past.
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But analysts are playing down the impact his appointment would have on policy.
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Researchers were playing down hopes for a significant breakthrough in the short term.
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In Brussels, senior EU officials are playing down expectations for rapid and substantial progress.
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He said Mr. Davis had spent years playing down his role in the family.
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Listen closely and you might hear a Wes Anderson soundtrack playing down the hall.
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They suggest darkly that the government is playing down the risk to avoid panic.
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He reached the semifinals of Wimbledon while playing down his fitness and his expectations.
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However, some market players are playing down the significance of the rising greenback, however.
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Things escalated when President Trump accused her of playing down the events of Sept.
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Behind the scenes, it's playing down investors' and analysts' fears of an antitrust response.
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Playing down abortion issues has advantages and disadvantages for Ms. Blackburn, political experts say.
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Playing down the possible historical milestones, the Penguins said their motivation is more personal.
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On Politics With Lisa Lerer Joe Biden is playing down expectations in New Hampshire.
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Some news organizations were accused of playing down the relationship; others, of 'outing' her.
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I couldn't take out the trash or supervise my son playing down the block.
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But even Waymo is playing down the historic milestone, acknowledging the world won't change overnight.
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That includes even Republican-led ones prone to playing down the dangers of climate change.
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But playing down the scale of the problem is a risky strategy for Mr Varadkar.
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Iran's deputy oil minister was unperturbed, however, playing down the potential impact of U.S. sanctions.
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She had him expelled last year for renewing past declarations playing down the Nazi Holocaust.
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For now, Republicans are playing down the likelihood that Medicare cuts will come to pass.
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The White House made a point of playing down any appearance of concern on Friday.
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But he had changed his tune by 1867, playing down slavery and emphasizing states' rights.
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Son's company is now playing down the idea that another giant tech fund is imminent.
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The AfD, whose leaders have been accused of playing down Nazi crimes, denies harboring racism.
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I was playing down in the Five Spot — the new one, there was two of them.
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In talking down such a problem, Weidmann is also playing down the need for any action.
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For now, other Republicans are playing down concerns about Moore's candor and loyalty to Trump. Sen.
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Mr. Peskin has also questioned whether the developer is playing down the severity of the problem.
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Russian steel and aluminum producers have been playing down the potential impact of the U.S. tariffs.
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Rather than playing down race, these women argue it's essential to recognize its interconnection with feminism.
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" The National Trust said any suggestion it was playing down the significance of Easter was "nonsense.
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Randstad's offer for Monster expires on Friday with the CEO playing down any issues with the deal.
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Many market participants are playing down the potential ill effect of Trump's presidency on wider global stability.
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The researchers know the science and its limitations, but there is no prize for playing down expectations.
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Car manufacturers were playing down safety when I started writing about the business in the early 1980s.
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After an initial statement playing down reports that the city might be under "significant attack," Brig. Gen.
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Democrats have criticized his administration for playing down the crisis and not preparing for the disease's arrival.
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But officials are playing down expectations that China will agree to any meaningful opening of its markets.
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For the moment, therefore, they are playing down the significance of the action on the Senate floor.
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Twitter posts from both sides playing down the prospect of further escalation also helped calm currency markets.
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The key to success for Taco Bell may be playing down what it's typically known for elsewhere.
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Biden's team had already been playing down expectations in the Hawkeye State before the poll came out.
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Senior Republicans are playing down the votes as some kind of major rift -- and they aren't wrong.
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Democrats' narrow focus on efficiency, playing down labour's loss of bargaining power, meant workers were taken for suckers.
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ET (1400 GMT) although most analysts were playing down the chance of a strong commitment on more cuts.
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But if one's interest is in playing down the impact of disaster, then event thinking is the ticket.
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Mindful of the constraints on Mr. Trump, they have been playing down the prospect of any startling breakthroughs.
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Clinton for covering the email saga obsessively, while playing down evidence of links between Mr. Trump and Russia.
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One: He simultaneously courted small, working-class investors by promising good rates of return and playing down risks.
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"It's the injuries, of course," Sabathia said, playing down the effect of his absence on the team's downturn.
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It obscures the deeper forces dividing the world, and spares winners by playing down the legitimate concerns of losers.
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"What she managed to do is reassure people, avoid a panic, without playing down the crisis," Ms. Roemmele said.
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Powerful associates who are said to have covered for him, playing down his misconduct or looking the other way.
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Federer has 20; Nadal has 19 and Djokovic has 16 — even if he is playing down the title race.
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Hundreds of people probably died in election violence, though the government strong-armed media outlets into playing down the problem.
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Some health experts have accused tourism-dependent Thailand of playing down the Zika risk but health officials have dismissed that.
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Turning Point USA has been playing down the incident, calling it a "last minute throw-up," according to the Post.
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Under the country's former military regime, many in Myanmar suspected officials of playing down disease outbreaks and other bad news.
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But Columbus Nova also has been removing and playing down stronger previous descriptions of its relationship with the Russian firm.
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Facebook came under scrutiny this month after reports from Gizmodo, a Gawker property, that it was playing down conservative news.
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Focusing on victims and playing down shooters are among the techniques being developed to stem the tide of gun violence.
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Wednesday's remarks coincide with recent comments by Republican lawmakers and other administration officials playing down concerns about the federal debt.
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The musical's director, Ellie Heyman, approaches the material with gusto, conjuring some visual and sonic surprises, playing down the politics.
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The conservative government is still playing down the role of climate change, despite polls showing public anger hitting feverish levels.
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Trump has often advanced a revisionist view of the 2016 election, claiming that Ukraine interfered and playing down Russia's role.
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Ingabire is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of trying to undermine the state and playing down the genocide.
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Civil charges can be brought against researchers who exaggerate the benefits of a particular experiment while playing down the risks.
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"(Trump) said, 'I'm 100 percent with you'," Mattis recounted, playing down Trump's remarks to CBS' "60 Minutes," which aired on Sunday.
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Two other former heads, Sture Allen and Horace Engdahl, have made cutting statements about Ms. Danius while playing down the accusations.
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For now analysts are playing down the likelihood of further franc appreciation, even if there is a longer-term equity slump.
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Audiences and journalists skewed his story to fit European fears, he says, emphasizing Islamist extremists but playing down the government siege.
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Several Wall Street firms are playing down Tesla's Model 3 production milestone, remaining skeptical over the carmaker's finances and demand trends.
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Prisoners say security staff members sometimes bully medical personnel into playing down injuries, especially those resulting from physical altercations with officers.
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In a Sunday tweet, Trump appeared to take that out of context and suggested that Khan was playing down the attack.
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The call for revocation came after a public hearing that outlined the company's role playing down climate science and spreading misinformation.
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And by early Monday, the Israeli news media were playing down the significance of the country's soldiers operating in Gaza territory.
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She also acknowledged that in recent days, she'd been playing down the risk of the coronavirus and community spread to herself.
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To the Editor: Trump voters playing down the Russian hacking would be apoplectic had Vladimir Putin intervened to help Hillary Clinton.
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Till then, the BOJ aims to puncture such speculation, even if it means playing down factors that might boost inflationary expectations.
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Mr. Trump added to tension with the press by accusing news organizations of playing down or declining to cover terrorist attacks.
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The Detroit Pistons are playing down to the level of their competition of late, and that strategy backfired on them Thursday night.
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That provoked a very big response from the U.S. and from some other countries, so since then they've been playing down 2025.
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JOHN MCDONNELL has spent much of his time as shadow chancellor playing down expectations of how radical a Labour government would be.
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Playing down the possibility of a carbon tax, Yeo suggested that solar energy is a viable option for Malaysia, a tropical country.
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After weeks of playing down their prospects of joining the Democratic ticket, the senator and his loyalists are becoming far more circumspect.
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Germany's major political parties refuse to work with the AfD, accusing some of its leaders of racism and playing down Nazi crimes.
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Democrats largely denounce Republicans for playing down deficit concerns now, after years of warning that government borrowing was holding the economy back.
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Can't make it into the live audience of fans in San Diego playing Down the Hatch to live your '90s kids dreams?
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Even before the $15 million figure was released, the Biden campaign and allies were playing down the significance of the quarterly total.
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On Monday, public broadcaster RTHK broadcast a video of a police public relations officer playing down the significance of the term cockroach.
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In interviews last month, Ms. Begum stated her desire to return to Britain while also playing down the brutality of ISIS's crimes.
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And yet Thailand's military government is playing down the dry spell and says it is powerless to crimp such a popular national holiday.
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One thing is clear: Tech giants will not be able to get away with playing down the power of their platforms in public.
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Playing down the no-deal threat is also driving Mrs May, as a matter of logic, in the direction of a softer Brexit.
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Officials from both countries have been careful to manage expectations ahead of the summit, playing down the possibility of completing a trade deal.
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While that pitch might suit the current period of uncertainty, playing down chances of explosive growth had blunted interest from some domestic investors.
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Playing down his image as a warmonger, sources claim that in his new role he sees himself as an honest broker between agencies.
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I could have given my inputs though my years of playing down there and ... tried to set it up to benefit our players.
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But the decision appalled many African-Americans, who saw it as part of a pattern of playing down white supremacist violence against them.
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Ms. Paltrow, 43, tried to split the difference during our tête-à-tête, playing down her role in the Goop Label design process.
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Boeing (BA) claimed Iran sanctions won't affect its production pipeline, playing down the potential loss of $20 billion in sales to Iranian airlines.
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He speaks with swagger and soaring statements about the glory of Turkey's Ottoman past, playing down the eight-decade secular interlude called Kemalism.
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Artists' estates have a vested interest in playing down the role of printers and assistants and in keeping unsigned copies off the market.
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Traditional media is caught on the back foot after initially playing down Netflix's potential and licensing content to it for short-term revenue.
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All the while, she modeled how to emphasize issues like constitutional overreach and the "alarming march of communism" while playing down racial segregation.
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Trading volume was lower than normal as a result of the holiday week, but one expert cautioned against playing down this week's swings.
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A day after playing down the severity of the situation, Argentine officials on Saturday signaled growing concern as they welcomed all international assistance.
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Aides noted that Mr. Rubio had come out in favor of several other Trump nominees, playing down any lingering tensions from the campaign.
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Some projected onto the images their dismay about Mr. Trump's playing down of human rights and about the authoritarian Egyptian and Saudi governments.
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After first playing down his chances in Iowa, Biden has spent a great deal of time in the state over the last month.
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Some health experts have accused Thai officials of playing down the risk of Zika to protect its thriving tourist industry, but Prasert dismissed that.
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Marine Le Pen, who now heads the FN, forced her father out of the party last year over comments playing down the Nazi Holocaust.
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The Mustang's best suited for practice spaces, though the larger models could potentially be used for gigging if you're playing down at the pub.
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This is in keeping with the Kremlin's policy of generally playing down Russian losses in a Syrian conflict that Moscow joined in September 2015.
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Mr. Newsom is well ahead in the polls and has been busy campaigning for Democrats running for Congress, while playing down his own race.
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He also said Moscow is sticking to the position that the deal "is not to be corrected", playing down Washington's stance on the agreement.
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Following the global outrage prompted by the journalist's disappearance, Trump's comments have varied from playing down Riyadh's role to warning of possible economic sanctions.
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"The pace was a bit quicker than I thought but I just went with the flow," Semenya said before playing down the world record prospects.
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But Mulvaney's comments may set that discussion back by playing down the role of diseases that people get due to genetics or simple bad luck.
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The head of the World Bank says he's "very impressed" with China's reform plans, playing down concerns over how Beijing has managed its economic slowdown.
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Other conservative magazines, websites and news empires have thrived since President Trump took office by cheering him on or, at least, playing down his faults.
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Mr. Yuan made the government's first extensive public comments on the crackdown two days later, playing down the military's responsibility for the violence and casualties.
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Other companies have long sold facial surveillance to law enforcement agencies, but Amazon has differentiated itself by, in part, playing down warnings about the technology.
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Playing down the importance of a rival's recruits is as much part of spycraft as exaggerating the importance of those recruited by one's own side.
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Playing down the importance of a rival's recruits is as much part of spycraft as exaggerating the importance of those recruited by one's own side.
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Some opposition politicians have accused the government of playing down the missed clues in the immediate aftermath of the killings and said Castaner should resign.
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Djokovic, like Nadal, is playing down the title race even if, unlike Nadal, he has made it clear that Federer's career record is an objective.
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Some precincts of the right-leaning news media, such as Breitbart News, refrained from criticizing Mr. Trump, playing down the story of the president's remarks.
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But as Mr. Duterte was warning about the dangers of Islamist militancy, his own military was playing down the threat from the Islamic State. Col.
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But administration officials are playing down General Suleimani's status as a part of the Iranian state, suggesting his title gave him cover for terrorist activities.
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The pitch they have used for years, playing down combat and emphasizing job training and education benefits, can work well when civilian opportunities are scarce.
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But the president and his team are playing down expectations from a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Instead of playing down these contradictions, or Rogue One's more ancillary impact in the grand scheme of Star Wars, the film seems to embrace its role.
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Investors are hoping Powell will sound more convinced when he speaks although most analysts were playing down the chance of a strong commitment on more cuts.
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"Russia has too much risk of seeing a natural decline anyway, without any agreed special steps," the manager said, playing down the possibility of agreed action.
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From the company's statements today, it seems like it is playing down its hopes for China despite investors and the market adopting a very bullish take.
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Uber is playing down the sheer volume of people expected to visit the DMV for this weekend with an "every four years" vibe on their blog.
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Powerless to do anything else, White House press representatives tried to wish the problem away by playing down the president's words or insisting they'd been misconstrued.
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The warning echoes similar concerns of some pundits, although the European Central Bank has been playing down worries that risks are building in the financial system.
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Clinton is playing down a report by the State Department inspector general that sharply criticized her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
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Playing down the idea that the burnings could be related to immigration, he said that one suspect was an ethnic Dane, while the other was not.
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But it also has the effect of playing down the support he has earned from establishment Republicans just when his circle of allies needs to grow.
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But in the face of a still spiralling geopolitical outcry over the journalist's slaying, SoftBank now appears to be playing down the prospect of imminent sequels.
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Mr. Bolsonaro also canceled a trip he had planned to make on Thursday, after spending the past few days playing down the risks of the virus.
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South Korean activists, including former comfort women, have accused Japan of playing down the atrocity, and an organization in San Francisco has taken up their cause.
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The state's attorney general filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil yesterday, arguing that the oil giant defrauded investors by playing down the risks of climate change.
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As a comic who grew up in the 1970s and '80s, Mr. Chappelle explains how much Mr. Cosby meant to him without playing down the accusations.
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is playing down any impact that Flynn's resignation might have on Mattis' debut trip this week to Europe to meet NATO allies.
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Facebook's changes to its News Feed in recent years increased the visibility of posts from your aunts and uncles while playing down articles from professional publishers.
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For now the bank is playing down the steady stream of weak economic readings with ECB chief Mario Draghi calling it a slowdown rather than a downturn.
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As a keen student of history he altered some tales a bit, playing down the demons and spirits and giving his listeners, instead, characters that made sense.
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TALKS: Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will visit the United States this week for trade talks, Beijing said on Tuesday, playing down the sudden increase in tensions.
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Yet still, Brazil could only muster a scoreless draw in its own capital city against a lower-ranked opponent playing down a man for half an hour.
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"The times on these test days don't mean much," said the German, playing down his time of one minute 17.182 seconds, set on the new hypersoft tires.
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It was the second public apology in less than a month from the world's fifth-richest person, for playing down Facebook's role in the 2016 U.S. election.
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In Ms. Ahmed's case, the BBC has defended itself by playing down her profile and contributions, as well as the significance of one of its own programs.
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"It's a negotiation, there's lots of things said," said the source in May's office, playing down the rhetoric of Hollande who warned her of a hard negotiation.
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An increasing number of U.S. universities are playing down the importance of SAT scores, which may present a problem for Chinese students looking to study in America.
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The Trump administration has been criticized for playing down C.I.A. findings that show Prince Mohammed played a role in the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
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Trump was also criticized for playing down the virus earlier on, but his subsequent handling of the crisis has seen him getting a bump in the polls.
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Meanwhile, Peter Tatchell, a campaigner for sexual freedom, said the church was guilty of homophobia in playing down Newman's companionship with fellow Catholic convert, Ambrose St John.
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After playing down the risks of cryptocurrencies at the beginning of Mr. Trump's term, Mr. Mnuchin said over the summer that they posed a national security threat.
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Adding to the awkwardness in Berlin's relations with Beijing, Germany's EU commissioner was forced into playing down remarks he made about the Chinese ahead of Gabriel's visit.
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He is leaving it to his Middle East envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, to make an oral presentation — playing down the significance of a resolution that the Americans deplore.
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The White House, arguing that the news media is playing down the threat of terrorism, released a list of 63 terrorist attacks that it says were underreported.
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Peripheral debt markets have also benefited from a scaling back of rate-hike expectations after recent comments from ECB officials playing down a near-term shift in policy.
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Tite is a master of playing down expectations and - crucially in a nation that famously has 200 million coaches – he commands the respect of both players and press.
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Playing down the links with Brexit, the banks say the moves will bring them closer to clients and cut the costs of concentrating their operations in expensive London.
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Already the government's commitment is looking doubtful, with Stan Marshall, the chief executive of Nalcor Energy, the company responsible for the dam, publicly playing down the methylmercury risks.
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Journalists have published exposés of the company's research into climate change, including actions it took to incorporate climate projections into its exploration plans while playing down the threat.
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She learned something, saying now that she had hoped to fit in by playing down her college affiliation, but she probably earned a reputation as being too quiet.
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Dramatically altered message After weeks of playing down the crisis and insisting it would soon be over, Trump has dramatically altered his message over the past two days.
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"Election officials and advocates and reporters who were watching most closely came away saying this was an amazingly quiet election," he said, playing down the notion of tampering.
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But he has faced criticism from Democrats and some experts for being slow and ineffective in his response to the coronavirus crisis and initially playing down the threat.
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Their coach, Jeff Fisher, spent his week defending his job security and playing down a public feud with Eric Dickerson, the Rams' famed running back, over sideline access.
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A fanatical cyclist, he always seemed to be bringing a dizzying procession of bike-related merchandise into the house, the price of which he was constantly playing down.
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Democratic officials in Nevada, scarred by the experience in Iowa, have been quietly playing down expectations about how long it will take to know who won the state.
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Bresnik is a fan of playing down his players' chances in public — even ruling out his players' chances in public — but he left the door ajar this time.
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But Tuesday's commemoration is fast becoming a rallying point for critics who accuse the Trump White House of courting white nationalists and playing down the suffering of Jews.
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Wall Street is playing down the risks to Facebook shares resulting from a potential credibility crisis after Cambridge Analytica's alleged misuse of the social media company's users' data.
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The numbers have also climbed as Trump took the outbreak increasingly seriously, appearing on television and warning people to stay home, after at first playing down the threat.
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Defense Department officials blamed a culture at the academies of playing down sexual assault, which they said encouraged students to feel that they should not report the violations.
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The government in Baghdad is playing down the crisis, saying very few fires have been started deliberately and only a fraction of the country's farmland has been affected.
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However, Goldman Sachs said it sees more risks to the upside than the downside for metals demand in China, playing down concerns of a sharp decline from policy changes.
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A senior policymaker who works closely with Rajan said the bank clean up exercise had been "institutionalized" and was on auto-mode, playing down any impact from Rajan's exit.
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When they declined the songs, Ms. Furler reclaimed them to sing for herself, flaunting rather than playing down her part in the 21st-century sphere of songwriting by committee.
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They accuse the authorities of playing down crimes perpetrated under the Nazi-backed Independent State of Croatia Ustasha, and of being indifferent to sporadic resurfacing of Ustasha fascist ideology.
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Insiders who know Liverpool FC are playing down the likelihood of an imminent deal, but the club's owners may be swayed by events 50km away from Anfield, its home.
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Bowman was playing down the stretch because the Warriors' leading scorer, D'Angelo Russell, sprained his right thumb midway through the third quarter and missed the game's final 250 minutes.
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Governor Mark Carney, speaking a month before a national election, said the economy was still growing and employing a record number of people, playing down recent signs of weakness.
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Friends who have spoken with him said he felt vindicated by Mr. Trump's improbable electoral success, playing down doubts about his strategy and expressing admiration for his political acumen.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to impose new sanctions on Moscow, triggering an angry reaction from Russian officials, but analysts are playing down the impact.
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More recently, Mr. Haldenwang's predecessor, Hans-Georg Maassen, was removed from his post after playing down far-right violence during rioting in the eastern city of Chemnitz last summer.
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After the outbreak first emerged in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, the leadership came under intense scrutiny for playing down the virus and delaying reports of its spread.
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Prosecutors then decided not to call him as a witness, playing down the import of his testimony and contending he was not part of the conspiracy involving Mr. Kian.
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The Secret Service was criticized for playing down the severity of the episode until a fuller account emerged in an investigation by a House subcommittee led by Mr. Chaffetz.
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Ramirez's successor, company veteran Ian McIntosh, last week pointed to regional partnerships as an option for LDC, playing down the idea of large-scale merger deals in the sector.
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Lawsuits around the country have also accused big opioid makers and distributors of using misleading marketing and playing down how addictive the painkillers were in order to increase sales.
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Trump and many of his allies in Congress and outside have been working to chip away at the whisleblower's credibility, calling his complaint "hearsay" and playing down its validity.
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American officials are playing down the missile threat, though similar tests two years ago prompted Mr. Trump to suggest that "fire and fury," and perhaps a war, could result.
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Rick Snyder, a Republican, and his administration have been criticized for failing to recognize the scope of Flint's water problems and playing down warnings from scientists and residents for months.
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The distributors have been accused of failing to flag and halt suspicious orders for opioids, while drugmakers are accused of promoting benefits of the drugs while playing down their risks.
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The distributors have been accused of failing to flag and halt suspicious orders for opioids, while drugmakers are accused of promoting benefits of the drugs while playing down their risks.
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"Defend Europe — Generation Identity's campaign to fund the C-Star — then issued its own a statement on Twitter playing down the incident, and repeatedly tweeted that there was "no distress.
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Playing down two starters, the Warriors are optimistic the R-and-R window will be plentiful enough for rest, relaxation and returns — of forward Kevin Durant and center DeMarcus Cousins.
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She continues her preparations for the Australian Open at the Hobart International this week but was playing down her prospects of a return to winning ways in the immediate future.
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Analysts say investors are for now playing down the probes and loss of order momentum because Airbus, like Boeing, is cushioned by record backlogs of jets waiting to be produced.
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President Donald Trump has sought to distance himself from wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is now facing charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy, playing down their past relationship.
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The RBA has been playing down the need for further easing following cuts last August and May that took the cash rate to an all-time low of 1.5 percent.
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But the recent controversy over allegations that Facebook was playing down conservative news sources and stories looms large over Sandberg's Wednesday conversation with American Enterprise Institute (AEI) President Arthur Brooks.
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That drew ridicule in the news media and from some Republicans, led by Speaker Paul D. Ryan, who suggested the Obama administration was playing down the attacker's radical Islamist motivation.
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said last week that Beijing has been "playing down" the "Made in China" plan since the United States and other countries began pushing back against it.
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This month, after years of denying or playing down a connection, a top N.F.L. official acknowledged at a hearing in Washington that playing football and having C.T.E. were "certainly" linked.
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But some political experts said they feared that Ms. Murata, like other women in leadership positions, might be forced to prove her mettle by playing down so-called women's issues.
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Kuroda also said there was still enough Japanese government bonds (JGB) left in the market for the BOJ to buy, playing down concerns its huge purchases have drained market liquidity.
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After weeks of playing down the potential effects of the coronavirus, President Trump proposed an emergency relief package to bolster the economy — one that has been met by bipartisan opposition.
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Playing down talk about possible coalition options, Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo said the Socialists would try to govern alone, while party officials said there was no hurry to decide.
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Mr. Trump has been criticized for playing down the outbreak in the early stages and repeatedly making assertions — including about the accessibility of tests — that were either overstated or inaccurate.
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And evidence presented in the documents filed on Thursday contradicts Mr. Trump's repeated denials of his financial interests in Russia and his playing down of campaign contacts with Russian officials.
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The lawsuit also accuses the defendants of playing down the addictiveness of the drugs and failing to report suspicious orders by consumers that would indicate the drugs were being abused.
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The judge also heard from Weinstein's attorneys and the client himself, who compared the #MeToo movement to McCarthyism while playing down his clout in Hollywood and touting his charitable work.
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But Mr. Trump has stood by the prince, playing down the importance of Mr. Khashoggi's killing and vetoing bipartisan legislation to end United States support to the war in Yemen.
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Residents also expressed deep concerns over a Daily News report in April that suggested the city was playing down crime in shelters by not including certain incidents in the data.
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Even then it was usually only to sing the praises of his forebears or the talented craftsmen and designers who had worked for him, while playing down his own talents.
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He's playing down to every misogynistic stereotype leveled at the GOP and, in so doing, confirming for Millennials and young Americans that Republicans are not the party to represent them.
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In the absence of any clearly achievable goal, Moscow has been playing down expectations, with the state news media saying just an agreement to meet again would be good enough.
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But officials have been playing down the prospect of securing a deal at the meeting, and it remains unclear what would persuade Mr. Trump not to proceed with the tariffs.
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"I'm sure business will get a better hearing," a Conservative Party source said on condition of anonymity, while playing down any idea that Hammond might radically change the party's Brexit stance.
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Instead of playing down to their opponent, the Cougars fashioned a nearly-perfect game and roared past Texas State 64-3 before a school-record crowd of 33,133 at Bobcat Stadium.
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Tillerson and Haley on Thursday drew criticism for playing down a long-standing U.S. goal of pushing Assad to leave power to help end the six-year-long Syrian civil war.
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Playing down the culpability of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, for the atrocities against the Rohingyas, as Western governments did, did not strengthen her hand against the army.
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The outcry prompted Pai to defend himself in a blog post days later, playing down the effect his decision would have on Lifeline and blasting the media for mischaracterizing the action.
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Cobalt blue silk crepe, with cap sleeves, a flared skirt and a neat waist, it was by the designer Christian Siriano, and it pretty much matched the backdrop, playing down Mrs.
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Boeing is playing down an estimated loss of $20 billion of sales to Iranian airlines after the U.S. moved to withdraw from a nuclear pact and re-impose sanctions on Tehran.
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The funding request also comes as Trump has dramatically altered his message over the past two days after weeks of playing down the crisis and insisting it would soon be over.
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But what has changed is that some of those leaders and even friends of Ms. Sandberg's are playing down her role, and positioning her as a peripheral character to the movement.
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Given the growing number of cases and deaths in the United States, Fox stopped playing down the crisis, a move that closely tracks the rocky evolution in thinking by Mr. Trump.
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Despite Mr. Trump's public comments playing down the threat from Russia, his security officials did not hesitate in directly blaming the Russian government as the primary culprit behind the interference campaign.
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Democrats have accused Mr. Kavanaugh of playing down his role in each program; he has maintained he was not aware of the policies and learned of them only from news reports.
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The central bank said a package of measures it adopted together with the government will ensure financial stability and will support the economy, while playing down risks of the rouble's slide.
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But they are intentionally keeping their demands moderate — with a focus on issues such as gun locks and mental health — and playing down any overt connection to the students in Parkland.
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Just as some historians have criticized "Hamilton" for playing down the founding fathers' position as slave-owning elites, musicologists might argue that the show similarly misrepresents Hamilton's cohort as musical populists.
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Go deeper: Under its leader, Xi Jinping, the Communist Party has recast China's history, playing down the traumas of the Mao era, including the tens of millions who died of starvation.
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While he allowed the report to be made available to the public with only light redactions, Democrats and some centrist Republicans accused him of playing down the severity of the findings.
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The Trump administration, under fire for immigration restrictions and other policies it says are designed to curb terrorism, has portrayed the news media and other institutions as playing down the threat.
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In the case of Fox News viewers and talk radio listeners, who tend to be older than the general population, the danger of playing down the threat is potentially far worse.
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Chris Christie has come under fire for quickly returning to the campaign trail following the Blizzard of 26, and playing down — even mocking — the concerns of New Jersey residents regarding storm damage.
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For this show, however, Disney may be playing down Scrooge's history of being a miserly anti-hero to make him more of a quasi-superhero figure who drives submarines and fights dragons.
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In a surprise statement on Friday, Macron said he had decided to block the EU-Mercosur deal and accused Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of lying in playing down concerns about climate change.
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Official propaganda is playing down the achievements of past leaders, to focus on extolling the "new era" announced in late 20183 when President Xi Jinping secured a second term as party leader.
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The sudden escalation in trade rhetoric follows the Federal Reserve on Wednesday playing down expectations of further aggressive monetary policy actions after cutting interest rates for the first time in a decade.
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Bankers and policymakers are also playing down comparisons between the problems at Germany's largest lender and the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008 which sent shockwaves through global markets.
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Relations between the two countries remains "very strong", Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque told reporters, playing down concern that the statue could hurt relations with Japan, a major source of aid and investment.
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Exaggerating would of course leave the respondent with a baggy condom or, in the unlikely event of anyone playing down their size, they'd end up in a condom that was too tight.
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A 'couple of hundreds' of engines had been affected by manipulated tests over several years at the Wartsila Delivery Centre Trieste in northeast Italy, he added, playing down the potential financial impact.
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"The craziness, particularly among Filipinos, hasn't been there in this one," Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter, said in a rare display of playing down by a man whose art is to manufacture buzz.
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Budiansky's playing down of the contradictions that make Holmes infuriating and interesting is particularly mystifying because he has dived into the sea of Holmes's voluminous writings and even contributed to Holmes scholarship.
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BERLIN — Germany's head of domestic intelligence was accused by lawmakers of playing down far-right violence by questioning the authenticity of a video showing a foreigner being chased during anti-immigrant protests.
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News Analysis TORGAU, Germany — Angela Merkel has spent her political career playing down her gender: shunning a feminist label, offering modesty, caution and diligent preparation as an implicit contrast to male swagger.
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In the 2011 interview with Art in America, Ms. Gechtoff talked about the female forms in her abstract work from the 1950s, playing down the idea that they were a feminist statement.
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Playing down two starters, the Warriors are optimistic the R-and-R window will be plentiful enough for rest and relaxation for — and the returns of — forward Kevin Durant and center DeMarcus Cousins.
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Picciani, a young politician from Rio, said preparations for the global sports event were on schedule and security for the games was guaranteed, playing down differences with the new Defense Minister Raul Jungmann.
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As his third major presidential campaign gets underway, Biden is already drawing criticism from the left of his party for playing down the threat Chinese competition poses to U.S. union-backed manufacturing industries.
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Playing down talk of possible coalition options, Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo said the Socialists would try to govern alone, while party president Cristina Narbona said it was in no hurry to decide.
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In his testimony, Mr. Stretch plans to say that "any amount" of fake or malicious activity is "too much," while at the same time playing down its importance, according to the prepared remarks.
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"This would ensure sustaining the balance of supply and demand in pretty much the same way we see it now," Zabotkin said, playing down market concerns about the resumption of regular FX purchases.
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Across North Africa, the Union is playing down the human rights and good-governance elements of its policy toward Egypt, Morocco and Algeria because of Europe's need for security cooperation against Islamist militants.
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The Kremlin, meanwhile, repeated its previous denial of any involvement in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in southern England this year, while playing down the importance of the sanctions.
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President Donald Trump's stance on trade is cause for "much" concern to South Korea, the country's finance minister told CNBC on Monday, while simultaneously playing down the economic threat posed by North Korea.
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Peripheral euro zone debt markets have also benefited from a scaling back of rate-hike expectations following recent comments from ECB officials playing down a near-term shift in the bank's policy stance.
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"We don't want a new Cold War," said the NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, playing down the prospect that European nations — many of which object to scrapping the treaty — would host any missiles.
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These briefings were occurring when much of the public still had a poor grasp of the virus, in part because President Trump and many Republican officials were still publicly playing down the threat.
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Playing down the outbreak From the start, the Chinese authorities wanted to control information about the outbreak, silencing any voices that differed with their narrative -- regardless of whether they were telling the truth.
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Or, it might be because the royal family is playing down its opulence at a time when many Brits are bemoaning them as an outdated institution and a waste of taxpayers&apos money.
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Making excuses or playing down the impact of your crimes is seen as a sign that an inmate is still thinking like a criminal, still under the sway of those same character defects.
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She has avoided talking about national policy, or about her past support from ultraconservative groups that believe women belong in the home and that call for playing down Japan's World War II atrocities.
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"Jo Johnson is a very, very, clever man," the father added, playing down suggestions that the family was becoming a high-profile British clan akin to the Kennedys or, God forbid, the Kardashians.
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The filmmaker has talked about the possibility of the film often, sometimes talking up the chances of it seeing the light of day, other times playing down the chances of it ever happening.
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A number of agencies, including the European Food Safety Agency and the E.P.A., have disagreed with the international cancer agency, playing down concerns of a cancer risk, and Monsanto has vigorously defended glyphosate.
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If Kennedy ran a technocratic transition, playing up the "neutral competence" of staff and playing down partisan patronage, Reagan ran a transition aimed at reversing the ideological direction of the federal government itself.
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He said the influential scholar George Pullen Jackson, working in and around Georgia in the 1930s, "whitewashed" the history, playing down the contributions of black gospel and other idioms to the shape-note culture.
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But he also acknowledges that success is not certain, and in an effort to allay market fears, is playing down the risks of defeat, saying a 'No' vote will merely extend the status quo.
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Further price increases are needed to offset higher raw-material costs despite their slight decline from recent peaks, Henry said, playing down analysts' doubts about the strategy amid cut-throat competition from Chinese brands.
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Others took issue with Trump playing down the negative effects of tariffs on the U.S. "They're wrong, they're hurting farmers, they're hurting manufacturers, they're hurting tech companies, they're hurting global supply chains," said Rep.
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When Indians have challenged aspects of Mother Teresa's career, he said, it has often been to safeguard what some see as the progressiveness of her work, playing down the miracles and myths surrounding her.
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They will also have to address crazier notions, like the obsession many politicians on the right now have with the idea that the platforms are biased against them, hiding or playing down conservative voices.
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In Tuesday's newsletter, we took a look at the roughly $12 million being spent by Democratic outside groups attacking President Trump for his comments this year playing down the severity of the coronavirus outbreak.
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But Biden's team started talking like winners early in the day — another change of direction from staffers who have spent the previous two months leading up to voting days and debates playing down expectations.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's value-added tax reforms will help support the economy and speed up structural adjustments, Vice Finance Minister Shi Yaobin said on Tuesday, playing down concerns such reforms could fan property speculation.
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Mr. Trump announced Wednesday evening that Mr. Pence would coordinate the government's response to the public health threat while playing down the immediate danger from the virus that is spreading rapidly across the globe.
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While other presidents in moments like this have sought to transcend politics and assert national leadership, Mr. Trump has framed the issue in partisan terms while playing down the risk to the United States.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin will not intervene in the case of a prominent U.S. investor arrested over embezzlement accusations, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, playing down pressure to release him before trial.
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Yet critics also claim the journals are purveyors of "junk science" — misleading, industry-backed articles that threaten public health by playing down the dangers of well-known toxic substances such as lead and asbestos.
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A running commentary throughout the show pointed out the importance of following Kim's economic and development strategy, while significantly playing down the role of the military and not once mentioning North Korea's nuclear weapons.
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If May loses next Tuesday's vote, Britain will most probably have to delay its departure from the EU, finance minister Philip Hammond said, playing down the risk of the country leaving without a deal.
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Italy's finance minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, told CNBC over the weekend that Italian banks "do not need [a] rescue," playing down fears ahead of crucial euro zone stress tests by the European Central Bank (ECB).
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There was some good news for Belgium with coach Roberto Martinez playing down fitness concerns over Eden Hazard after the skipper limped out of their final World Cup warmup match against Costa Rica on Monday.
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"I think you need to take a look at the bigger picture," he said when asked if recent U.S. statements playing down the short-range tests amounted to giving North Korea permission to conduct them.
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The airline had previously been among the more bullish voices in the sector on the fallout of Britain's progress on leaving the trading bloc, playing down the risks when it raised dividend payouts last November.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank is strong and its turnaround strategy is bearing fruit, Chairman Paul Achleitner said, ruling out the need for state aid and playing down speculation that the lossmaking German bank should merge.
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Chinese state media on Thursday published and aired reports quoting U.S.-based organizations and individuals critical of Trump's decision to raise tariffs, though playing down the impact of higher U.S. tariffs on the Chinese economy.
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South Korea's foreign ministry said on Thursday the measure to stop issuing or extending visas had been implemented since last June for practical reasons based on the immigration control law, playing down any political motive.
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" Playing down the heckles during a speech that focused on the EU accession talks which Serbia hopes to complete by 2019, Mogherini later told reporters: "It is not nice to be rude to a lady!
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There are other concerns about Mr. Obama's policy, including his playing down of human rights issues in China and Laos and his willingness to sell more weapons to Asia, which risks a new arms race.
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The Glasgow organization, which has done most of Juul's outside research, is well known to tobacco control advocates, who have long criticized its studies for playing down the danger of youth addiction to e-cigarettes.
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"The Mercers haven't given me money in years," he told multiple people, playing down their significance in his work and insisting that an initial $10 million investment in the website was all they had provided.
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Some athletes on the call, for instance, were left dumbfounded when an athlete representative from Europe made a comment playing down the severity of the virus and blaming the news media for hyping its risks.
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Some athletes on the call, for instance, were left dumbfounded when an athlete representative from Europe made a comment playing down the severity of the virus and blaming the news media for hyping its risks.
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He has taken foreign policy to its most realpolitik moment in generations, playing down issues of human rights or democracy that animated his predecessors, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
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U.S. officials have called for more talks, while playing down the deadline as "artificial" and warning that it would be a "huge mistake and a missed opportunity" for North Korea to take any provocative steps.
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"So I would say if anything, were any rhetoric at all to come out of the ECB over the next month or so, it would be more about playing down expectations of tapering," he predicted.
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Mr. Trudeau, whose advisers were quick to reach out to Mr. Trump's aides after the presidential election, has been playing down the effects on Canada, suggesting by extension that Mexico is the new administration's target.
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After a classified briefing in New York a month ago, he grudgingly accepted that Russia had a role, while playing down the hacking by noting that China and other countries also hacked the United States.
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The Post's reporting also mentions the Gorkov meeting, more pointedly suggesting that FBI investigators see a possible link between the two events: The White House disclosed the meeting only in March, playing down its significance.
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Many historians viewed this law as an attempt by the conservative Polish government to revise history, by playing down the willing participation of many Polish citizens in the murder of 3m Polish Jews by Nazi Germany.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Some Malaysian businesses are skirting around or playing down the portrayal of canines in Chinese New Year decorations this year, wary of offending the country's Muslim majority in the Year of the Dog.
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The rebound was triggered by Kuroda's comments on a BBC Radio 4 interview playing down the idea of helicopter money, essentially a policy of injecting cash directly to the economy by printing money in some form.
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Speaking to reporters after the bank's governing council held key rates, he said harsh criticism in Germany undermined the ECB and its attempts to buoy the economy, playing down complaints that low rates were squeezing savers.
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In an interview focused largely on foreign policy, Trump said defeating Islamic State is a higher priority than persuading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, playing down a long-held goal of U.S. policy.
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Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will visit the United States this week for trade talks, Beijing said on Tuesday, playing down a sudden increase in tensions after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose new tariffs.
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Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will visit the United States this week for trade talks, Beijing said on Tuesday, playing down a sharp increase in tensions after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose new tariffs.
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"Mascherano and Biglia are very skilled and really unite the team with their passes," he said, playing down the 34-year-old Mascherano's lack of top flight football since leaving Barcelona for Hebei Fortune in January.
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After his stunning rebound from the career-threatening crash, Bourdais is third in the IndyCar Series standings and among a top contender heading into Sunday's double-points showcase, even if he is playing down his prospects.
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But, not playing down our own importance, when you make great music, it's quite easy to manufacture an image if you like and to keep it up, because the music will always be your saving grace.
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After he became prime minister, though, he disappointed many supporters by playing down such issues, Many saw this as the price he paid to appease the coalition's conservative wing in deals that installed him as leader.
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" After initially playing down Mallet's visa woes, AmCham President Tara Joseph, a former Reuters journalist and FCC president, said: "Without a free press, capital markets cannot properly function, and business and trade cannot be reliably conducted.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Risks to euro zone growth are mounting but have yet to impact actual growth indicators, European Central Bank chief economist Peter Praet said, playing down fears about an excessive slowdown in the currency bloc.
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Lawyers have demanded that Serbian doctors review Mr. Mladic's condition, insisting that court-appointed physicians have been playing down their client's dire state and neglected to carry out important tests for heart disease and brain damage.
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Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, pointed out the contrast between energy companies acknowledging the need to reduce emissions and the cabinet secretary's playing down of climate change.
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Large numbers of recently created Twitter accounts have also hurled abuse at reporters and staff members of nongovernmental organizations posting anything seen as sympathetic toward the Rohingya or playing down the violence of the Rohingya militants.
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While the Brexit vote continues to dominate minds, testimony by U.S. Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen on Tuesday was read by some as playing down the chances of a rise in U.S. interest rates in July.
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Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, a vigorous conservative voice in the Vatican and influential figure in the Latin American church who drew attention for seemingly playing down the church's sexual abuse scandal, died on Friday in Rome.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Andy Murray saw off the mercurial challenge of Australian Nick Kyrgios with little fuss on Monday, before just as smoothly playing down growing expectations that a second Wimbledon title is his for the taking.
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Administration officials are playing down a finding by Homeland Security analysts: that the nation faces no increased risk of terrorism from travelers from the seven majority-Muslim nations barred from entry under an earlier executive order.
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The Air Force on Tuesday said it was ordering a one-day safety review for all flying and maintenance wings by May 28503, while at the same time playing down a string of deadly aircraft crashes.
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Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, will pay almost $26 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the State of Oklahoma, accusing the company of deceptive marketing and playing down the opioid's power to addict.
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Bill Doherty, a marriage therapist and professor at the University of Minnesota, said he had seen women who were more professionally successful than their husbands compensate by building up their husbands' careers and playing down their own.
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ROME, April 14 (Reuters) - The chief executive of UniCredit said on Thursday he was pleased with his relation with the board of the Italian bank, playing down reports that he has lost the support of influential shareholders.
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ROME, April 14 (Reuters) - The chief executive of UniCredit said on Thursday he was pleased with his relationship with the board of the Italian bank, playing down reports that he has lost the support of influential shareholders.
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Clinton's aides have appeared to brace for the worst here, playing down expectations and shifting their attention to the South Carolina primary next weekend and on the 11 states that hold contests on Super Tuesday, March 1.
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At first Netanyahu issued a hurried statement playing down differences with Washington, emphasizing the strong alliance with the US while also arguing that the Israeli government's position regarding the Iran nuclear agreement remained unchanged (read: bad deal).
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Organizers for the Rio Olympics have delivered on their promises, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Sunday, playing down persistent problems that have plagued the first South American Games since the start.
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GUTFELD: But the whistling in the dark is bad because you -- what you&aposre doing is you&aposre going to be playing down the -- if people say, hey, Jason said we&aposve got nothing to worry about.
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Obama's Republican critics have accused him of playing down human rights concerns in order to pursue rapprochement with Cuba, which began in December 2014 and is now seen as a major piece of his foreign policy legacy.
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With several of its marquee players retiring early after a cascade of frightening concussions, the league formed a committee in 21992 that would ultimately issue a succession of research papers playing down the danger of head injuries.
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SUZUKA, Japan, (Reuters) - - Sebastian Vettel said he had nothing to sort out with Maurizio Arrivabene, playing down comments the Ferrari team principal made that the German had to earn his place at the Italian Formula One team.
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Trump-friendly news organizations seized on the detail, wielding it as a cudgel against Mr. Comey and focusing on his leaking while playing down other developments from the hearing, like his assertions that the president had lied.
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White House officials are playing down chances of an agreement at this summit on modifications that would allow the United States to join with the other signatories of the agreement and remain in the pact after May.
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While playing down the importance of government gains, Saleh said military aid from the rebels' foreign backers - including Saudi Arabia and Turkey - was not enough to confront offensives that are also backed on the ground by Iran.
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If any of the new infections are tied to Iran, it would deepen concerns that the country is playing down both the extent of the outbreak there and its role in spreading the virus to other nations.
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He is facing mounting criticism for disregarding the warnings of public health experts and playing down the threat of the virus by calling it "a little flu" even as the death toll rises in Brazil's largest cities.
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"Despite the volatile environment, investors perhaps still believe that the equity market provides better capital gains due to the Fed's actions, and are playing down the need for a hedge," Howie Lee, an economist at OCBC Bank, said.
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Now that Trump is president, after nearly a decade of playing down Russian interference and its impact on our elections, the left is in total freak out mode, trying desperately to connect Russian hacking to the Trump presidency.
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What's happening: "Analysts say TVB's reporting has largely focused on how the protests have disrupted Hong Kong's famed efficiency, while playing down the political frustrations that have driven people to the streets in large numbers," the Times writes.
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Wilmore remedied the situation by gleefully "inserting" himself into the show and correcting — hilariously -- the inaccurate blather of a panelist playing down American racism, and then finished up with a takedown of O'Reilly for making light of slavery.
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LONDON, July 14 (Reuters) - Sterling would rise if the opposition Labour Party won an election, the party's finance policy chief John McDonnell told the Sunday Times, playing down the idea that a socialist government could trigger capital flight.
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Few U.S. retailers have made much of the trade war so far, playing down the impact on their bottom lines, but with the U.S. economy showing signs of slowing, it would add to a growing list of headaches.
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GENEVA/RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemen's first round of peace talks in almost three years aims to build confidence between the warring sides, U.N. mediator Martin Griffiths said on Wednesday, playing down a delay in the arrival of one delegation.
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The big picture: Trump himself has acknowledged as much, playing down expectations in his public statements and describing this as the first of a potential series of meetings designed to thaw relations and ultimately denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
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Playing down market speculation that a recent comment by ECB President Mario Draghi foreshadowed quicker normalization, Praet said the process will be long and slow, because the current inflation path is based on substantial support from the ECB.
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It drastically changed the formula the government uses in its required cost-benefit analysis of the regulation by taking into account only certain effects that can be measured in dollars, while ignoring or playing down other health benefits.
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From North Dakota and Missouri to Montana and Tennessee, they have been trying to localize races, either ignoring Mr. Trump or highlighting their willingness to work with him while playing down the court fight and emphasizing regional issues.
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As Warren has plateaued or slumped in the polls in recent weeks, however, the campaign has begun playing down expectations for an Iowa knockout victory and preparing supporters for a protracted fight for delegates through March and April.
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An Iranian official was categorical in playing down the idea of Trump and Rouhani meeting this week and called for the United States to return to the nuclear deal, formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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An index of stocks in the developing world gained 0.4%, its second straight rise, as the Global Times, a tabloid run by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, playing down "negative" media reports on the Sino-U.
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An index of stocks in the developing world gained 0.4%, its second straight rise, as the Global Times, a tabloid run by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, playing down "negative" media reports on the Sino-U.
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It accused journalists of playing down the size of mourning crowds, but probably only because it did not dare mention even more vexing content, including analysis of the king's questionable democratic credentials and the crown prince's louche personal life.
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Macron said Bolsonaro had lied in playing down concerns about climate change at a G20 summit in Japan in June, and threatened to veto a trade pact between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will one day open cinemas and build a world-class opera house, the man spearheading the kingdom's entertainment reforms said on Thursday, playing down opposition by powerful religious authorities to changes they see as sinful.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese cosmetic surgeon criticized for praising Nazis and playing down Japan's wartime atrocities won an auction for a memoir by Emperor Hirohito that chronicles the nation's slide into World War Two, paying $275,000 for the document.
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MADRID (Reuters) - There is no risk of a snap national election in Spain, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Monday, playing down any threat to his minority-led government from a change of leadership in the opposition Socialist party.
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Playing down concerns that lawsuits filed by some bondholders could derail the agreed deal, Ricardo Mourinho Felix told a parliament committee that European Union banking supervisors and the EU directorate general for competition were aware of this tentative timetable.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - European Central Bank rate setter Philip Lane shrugged off a selloff in euro zone government bonds since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, playing down the significance of "day-by-day" market moves for ECB policy.
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Even before the election, officials close to Merkel were playing down the urgency of a reform of the euro zone, describing efforts to secure Europe's borders and agree a fair distribution of refugees across the bloc as higher priorities.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Talks last week between the heads of European Union institutions and Turkey's president, Tayyip Erdogan, were held in a "good atmosphere" but produced no new agreements, officials in Brussels said, playing down comments by the Turkish leader.
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"Showing up is part of the vote," said Senator Dianne Feinstein, 86, Democrat of California, before playing down the threat compared with the killings of two San Francisco officials she witnessed in the early days of her political career.
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China: President Xi Jinping commemorated the 100th anniversary of the May 4 student protests against Western colonialism, using the moment to burnish his brand of authoritarian nationalism while playing down the anti-authority themes that emerged from the movement.
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He criticized what he called quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's "owner's mentality" and chastised Tomlin for disciplining him in Week 17, no matter that Tomlin and the rest of the organization had spent years playing down Brown's off-the-field eccentricities.
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It's exciting to see that momentum start to transform the screen images that shape the larger culture too: Women playing down the come-hither thing, more offbeat-looking women, a few chunky women (and not just in comedy specials).
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Notably, although White House officials put out statements late on Monday playing down any problem with what he told the Russians, the administration also implored Washington Post reporters not to publish the details lest their dissemination damage national security.
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But the company reiterated 2018 goals including an increase in group revenue and an operating margin above 6 percent - playing down the impact of new emissions tests that have led to the withdrawal or suspension of some European models.
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The ECB is set to keep policy unchanged on Thursday, playing down worries over recent softness in the euro zone economy and leaving the door open to ending its lavish bond purchase scheme by the close of the year.
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After more than a decade of avoiding discussion of the post-Abbas era, Palestinian officials have cautiously begun to breach the matter in the open, mostly by playing down the crisis, even while potential successors are quietly jockeying for position.
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The developments raise the question of how the new White House occupant will address Russian assertiveness and whether, after complimenting Russian President Vladimir Putin and playing down Russia's adversarial relationship with the US, Trump will resort to any confrontational responses.
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"We have an asset that will allow us to be able to stay highly competitive and in a leadership position going forward," AbbVie CEO Rick Gonzalez said about Mavyret on the company's conference call, playing down concerns about the shrinking market.
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On Wednesday, her minister for the cabinet office, David Lidington, said it would most probably take a few weeks to decide on a final position, playing down any expectations of a quick decision at Wednesday's meeting of the Brexit committee.
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"It's a vote in Abruzzo and I don't think our 5-Star friends have anything to fear," Salvini told reporters, playing down speculation political instability could rise on the back of the vote as 5-Star seeks to regain the initiative.
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While the so-called Brexit vote continues to dominate sentiment, testimony by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Tuesday and Wednesday was seen by some as playing down the chances of a hike in U.S. interest rates this summer.
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MANILA, Aug 22 (Reuters) - London copper edged lower on Wednesday ahead of trade talks between the United States and China, with U.S. President Donald Trump playing down hopes for near-term progress and saying resolving the dispute will take time.
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Alternatively, by playing down expectations that the summit will happen the President could be preparing a face-saving exit for himself -- or indulging in a bit of pre-summit negotiating -- on television where Kim can see exactly what he is saying.
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As Beijing steps up its efforts to attract Chinese tech companies, Hong Kong - which is expected to implement the weighted voting rights in the second quarter, reversing a long-standing one-share-one-vote principle - is playing down the competition.
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Remember that he spent the last 48 hours -- and, really, the last 18 months as President -- ignoring or playing down the intelligence findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 election for the purpose of helping Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton.
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Despite its notorious battles with violent crime, Brazil has largely been spared the kind of brazen terrorist attacks that have rattled much of the world in recent years, with Brazilian officials long playing down the nation's vulnerability to homegrown extremism.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would still be in her job in two weeks' time, playing down speculation that she might resign if the Brexit deal is not approved by parliament in a vote scheduled for Dec. 11.
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Mr. Trump, after weeks of playing down potential effects of the virus, called for a temporary elimination of payroll taxes that could cost nearly $700 billion, rivaling both the financial bailout of 2008 and the economic stimulus measure that followed.
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The team was happy with the additional 17 lawmakers giving support to Johnson, a source in the team said, playing down expectations of an even higher number after fellow pro-Brexit Conservative Dominic Raab was eliminated from the contest on Tuesday.
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The indictment said the two men had been part of plan "to entice the victims" to undergo the surgery while "falsely and fraudulently" describing the health risks associated with pelvic mesh implants and playing down the possible complications from removal surgery.
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While playing down the possibility that banks could cheat, Mr. Quarles said he was worried that increased transparency would focus banks on the Fed's view of potential risks, rather than developing their own assessments based on the risks they are undertaking.
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" Germany's Jews are alarmed by the rise of the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, whose leaders have been accused of playing down Nazi crimes and calling a national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust a "memorial of shame.
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When I did get them on the phone, a worrying theme emerged: Scientists are so terrified of the public's vaccine hesitancy that they are censoring themselves, playing down undesirable findings and perhaps even avoiding undertaking studies that could show unwanted effects.
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Arguably as important as the particular failures themselves, however, was the way the party infrastructure — its leaders and functionaries, its activists and operators — formed a partisan phalanx around the president, playing down his flaws, if not refusing to acknowledge them.
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Mr. Trump, who authorized a $12 billion bailout in July for farmers hit by China's tariffs, made a point of playing down his own responsibility for the pain felt by local businesses and farms, repeatedly placing the blame on Beijing.
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"Some quite significant so-called evangelical leaders are uncritically supporting people in ways that imply they are colluding or playing down the seriousness of things which in other parts of their lives [they] would see as really important," he added.
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The two countries entered a fierce battle over the souls of Muslims with Saudi clerics augmenting their anti-Shiite rhetoric and the Iranian counterparts playing down their Shiism to appeal to Pan-Islamic, anti-imperial and anti-Western sentiments among Muslims.
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Simsek, who has oversight for the economy, has previously said Turkey would not achieve its goal of 4.5 percent growth this year, although like others ministers he has been playing down the impact on output from a failed coup in July.
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And he pushes even more in this first of two new comedy specials (the second is "Deep in the Heart of Texas"), in which he laments the loss of Bill Cosby's cultural legacy without playing down the rape accusations against him.
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And through it all, officials persisted in playing down and dismissing the concerns of Flint residents — one referred to concerned residents groups as "anti-everything" — and authoritatively vouching for the water's purity, even as they themselves were debating whether it was pure.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany can take back Islamic State fighters captured in Syria only if the suspects have consular access, the interior ministry said on Sunday, playing down the likelihood of Berlin meeting demands made by U.S. President Trump to his European allies.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Thursday drew criticism for playing down a long-standing U.S. goal of persuading Assad to leave power to help end the six-year-long Syrian civil war.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil men's soccer coach Rogerio Micale is playing down talk that his young team will seek revenge for the senior side's mauling by Germany in the last World Cup when the teams meet in the Olympic final on Saturday.
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ZHUHAI, China (Reuters) - China paraded industrial and military clout and sent deliberate signals to Western rivals that its aerospace and arms industries aim to catch them up on world markets, while playing down trade tensions at the nation's largest air show this week.
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HONG KONG, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying said on Monday he was "highly concerned" about the disappearance of five booksellers specializing in publications critical of China, while playing down speculation one may have been abducted by Chinese agents.
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"With Donald Trump playing down expectations of tomorrow's meeting with China, there is reason to believe that we could see this recent optimism fade in the event that talks fail, as they have a number of times before", commented IG analyst Josh Mahony.
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Without playing down the challenges of integration, the refugees cause ourselves less worry than the consequences in Europe and in the whole world: National thinking without any compromises seems to increase greatly, as if there wasn't the 20th century with its teachings.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Ratan Tata, patriarch of one of India's most prominent business families, has no plans to step down imminently as chairman of Tata Trusts, the largest shareholder in the $100 billion Tata conglomerate's holding company, playing down reports of a 2017 departure.
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Perhaps wary that the same could happen to Spectacles, Snap, Snapchat's parent company, seems to be playing down expectations for it: The glasses sell for $130, a price low enough to suggest a novelty rather than a groundbreaking new piece of tech.
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In Washington, Trump called for a temporary cancellation of the payroll tax as he began negotiations with Congress on an emergency financial relief package — an acknowledgment of the gravity of the crisis after weeks of playing down the threat of the virus.
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Trump and some Republicans lawmakers have faced intense criticism for playing down the threat of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 14,000 Americans and claimed at least 205 lives as of Friday morning, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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The critic and Palestinian rights advocate Edward Said argued that Mr. Naipaul had interviewed only those who would confirm his pre-established thesis about flaws in Islam while playing down local political situations that might better explain the rise in Islamic fundamentalism.
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Rescue and cleanup workers at the World Trade Center were at first allowed to toil there without respirators, and both New York City and federal officials were later accused of playing down the risks from inhaling dust and smoke from the site.
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In playing down the Mueller report's critiques of the president, Mr. Barr has also opened himself to attacks that he is aligning himself too closely with a president who has attacked the rule of law and is eroding the Justice Department's independence.
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After weeks of playing down the potential effects of the virus, Mr. Trump is now calling for drastic economic measures, including the payroll tax suspension, whose cost would rival the Wall Street bailout of 2008 and the economic stimulus measure that followed.
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Botta and PwC are battling in court over his claimsFeeling like his superiors at PwC were ignoring or playing down the importance of the problems he found, Botta filed his whistleblower complaint and later met with staff members in the office of Sen.
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The federal government, which has been criticized for playing down the threat from domestic white extremists, has seemed to alter its course in the wake of several recent mass shootings perpetrated by white extremists that have left dozens dead and many more wounded.
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LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Bursts of activity in the final minutes of trading on Euronext's Paris stock exchange have not led to drastic swings in prices, France's financial watchdog said on Tuesday, playing down industry concerns about the potential disruption to prices.
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"Don't think of this as the LVMH e-commerce project; think of this as us taking Le Bon Marché international via the internet," Mr. Rogers said, playing down expectations for the first step of an overhaul of the group's approach to reaching customer.
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At one point, Mr. Kenny called Mr. Adams an "absolute hypocrite" and attacked him for playing down, years earlier, the case of a former Sinn Fein member who said she was sexually abused by IRA members — a charge that Mr. Adams denies.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Brazil men's soccer coach Rogerio Micale is playing down talk that his young team will seek revenge for the senior side's mauling by Germany in the last World Cup when the teams meet in the Olympic final on Saturday.
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Shares in Danish windfarm company DONG Energy got some wind their sails on their stock market debut Thursday as the executive told CNBC that there were opportunities for growth all over the world, playing down a controversy surrounding Goldman Sachs' holding in the group.
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The International Monetary Fund might see Deutsche Bank as the "most important net contributor to systemic risks in the global banking system," but many experts and analysts in the industry are playing down comparisons with the dramatic collapse of Lehman Brothers eight years ago.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya is monitoring health threats posed by the Zika virus ahead of the Olympic Games and it is too early to decide on its impact, Kenya's Olympic committee said on Tuesday, playing down comments that had suggested it could pull athletes out.
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The EU delegation, which had been playing down expectations, confessed to some surprise at how well it worked, surmising that Trump, assailed at home on a range of issues, saw advantage in how an EU deal could be sold compared to a bigger trade war.
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By changing up the storyline by inserting an American reporter, playing down the emotional impact of the destruction, and just plain ignoring the original intent of the film, the American version of Godzilla lobotomized itself into becoming a much simpler movie: watch big monster destroy.
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Both Coeure and Lane said that December would be the time to decide on the future of the ECB's asset buys, seemingly playing down a string of mildly positive data in recent weeks, arguing that the ECB wants to see a sustained rebound in inflation.
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Sweden's housing sector has been booming for two decades and the central bank called on the government on Wednesday to act on proposals to tighten mortgage repayment rules, playing down worries that heavier regulation could cause a recent fall in house prices to accelerate.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had no hatchet to bury on Friday, playing down tensions after a meeting between the powerful speaker and freshman lawmaker who in recent months has seized the Democratic Party spotlight.
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Speaking by telephone from Edinburgh, Sue Cator, Mr. Liddell's niece, said that although she had not yet seen the entire film, she did not think playing down Liddell's faith would be a "huge problem," as long as he was portrayed in a positive light.
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Philadelphia will have to hope it can show a little more burst on both offense and defense against the Titans (2-1), a team that has been banged up and fairly mediocre thus far but has lulled teams into playing down to their level.
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In Pennsylvania, Mr. Lamb, a 33-year-old former prosecutor from a local Democratic dynasty, presented himself as independent-minded and neighborly, vowing early that he would not support Ms. Pelosi to lead House Democrats and playing down his connections to his national party.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday and pointed to solid U.S. economic growth and a strengthening labor market while playing down the impact of recent hurricanes, a sign it is on track to lift borrowing costs again in December.
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They echo the old fundamentalist charge against the Social Gospelers: that Christians who focus too much on trying to reform the unjust institutions of this world risk playing down the call to salvation in the hereafter — and also become pawns of godless social engineers.
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The public opening deals a final blow to two centuries of ignoring, playing down or covering up what amounted to an open secret during Jefferson's life: his relationship with a slave that spanned nearly four decades, from his time abroad in Paris to his death.
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Instead, it attenuates them — a brutal slap across the face, you suspect, stands in for more instances of physical abuse — and casts many of Maud and Everett's difficulties as personal ordeals, playing down the institutional forces, like an orphanage, that discreetly hover in the background.
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Critics accused the government of playing down the disease, and failing to take strict precautions to prevent its arrival in the country, in order to avoid provoking China, a key trading partner and a lifeline for Iran's economy in the face of U.S. sanctions.
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CHRIS PROTOPAPAS, NEW YORK To the Editor: Regardless of any cost-benefit comparisons of universal health care coverage plans in developed countries, the writers are playing down the most important issue: Every other developed country offers some sort of coverage for all of its citizens.
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The central bank governors of Germany and Lithuania joined a number of fellow ECB rate setters in playing down the chances of a policy move in response to the epidemic, which is spreading to the euro zone having killed nearly 2,900 people in China.
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The central bank governors of Germany and Lithuania joined a number of fellow ECB rate setters in playing down the chances of a policy move in response to the epidemic, which is spreading to the euro zone after killing nearly 2,900 people in China.
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The central bank governors of Germany and Lithuania joined a number of fellow ECB rate setters in playing down the chances of a policy move in response to the epidemic, which is spreading to the euro zone after killing nearly 2,900 people in China.
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Analysts said that by playing down North Korea's recent missile tests, Mr. Trump gave the country a green light to develop and test new short-range weapon systems that threatened not only South Korea and Japan but also American troops and civilians living there.
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Conservative media stars, including Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity of Fox News, have come under intense scrutiny after playing down the coronavirus and assuring millions of Americans that concerns about the illness had been overhyped by Democrats and journalists intent on undermining Mr. Trump.
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Conservative media stars, including Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity of Fox News, have come under intense scrutiny after playing down the coronavirus and assuring millions of Americans that concerns about the illness had been overhyped by Democrats and journalists intent on undermining Mr. Trump.
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Beijing said on Tuesday that Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will visit the United States this week for trade talks, playing down U.S. President Donald Trump's unexpected threat that he would raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods to 25 percent from 13 percent.
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French President Emmanuel Macron's office said Bolsonaro had lied in playing down concerns about climate change at the G20 summit in Japan in June and that, in this light, France would oppose the deal struck between the EU and the Mercosur countries: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
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Senior members of Italy's cabinet, backed by a coalition of the rightwing League and the hard-to-define 5-Star Movement, have sought to reassure markets in recent days by reaffirming their commitment to the single currency and playing down pledges to spend more and cut taxes.
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LONDON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - British finance minister Philip Hammond he could not see a situation where he would reject a request by the Bank of England to boost the economy by buying more bonds, playing down suggestions of a rift between the government and the central bank.
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Reuters just reported that Democrats are twice as apt to view the coronavirus as an imminent threat to our country as Republicans, and the reason seems clear: The news outlets that do the president's bidding are playing down the potential scope and severity of the problem.
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BANKS RISE Banking shares also rose more than a percent for a second day as eurozone bond yields rose in the wake of strong U.S. private data and comments this week by ECB officials playing down the need for aggressive stimulus at next Thursday's policy meeting.
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Mr. Trump, who spent weeks playing down the threat of the virus — and who has retreated from saying that social distancing could be scaled back in mid-April — congratulated himself at the briefing for projections showing that public health measures may significantly limit the national death toll.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday asserted that the news media was playing down the terrorist threat posed by the Islamic State, telling American military personnel that journalists were reluctant to report on the militant group's attacks in Europe and "have their reasons" for failing to cover them.
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On Friday, visitors said they appreciated the museum's handling of Mr. Nixon's impeachment legacy, saying that they hoped a future Trump library would take the same approach and avoid playing down this part of Mr. Trump's presidency, regardless of the ultimate outcome in the Senate trial.
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Mr. Trump and his advisers are playing down the likelihood of reaching an agreement in the short term, and the president suggested on Friday that China was trying to drag out the negotiations in the hope that someone else might occupy the Oval Office come January 2021.
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Mr. Trump and his advisers are playing down the likelihood of reaching an agreement in the short term, and the president suggested on Friday that China was trying to drag out the negotiations in the hope that someone else might occupy the Oval Office come January 2021.
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That could put President Xi Jinping in a difficult position, forced to choose between playing down Mr. Trump's attacks and risking a backlash at home, or raising the stakes by pushing back more forcefully and setting China on a potential collision course with the United States.
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Because one of the daughters was adopted, and had a rocky adolescence, some criticized Ms. Harris as fashioning her theory playing down the role of parents to absolve herself of responsibility, but her adherents said that was nonsense and that her work was supported by multiple studies.
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He hit the Trump administration talking points of lowering taxes on businesses to encourage them to keep operations in the U.S., saying he thinks 3 to 4 percent sustained GDP growth is reasonable and playing down analyses that Trump's tax plan would expand the national debt by trillions.
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But some of those conservatives remain nervous, in part because of a Fox News interview in which Trump makes clear he was not happy with comments Mulvaney made playing down the prospects of an infrastructure deal and suggesting $2 trillion was too large of a package in any event.
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Right-wing politicians have been accused of using the episodes to play on fears of the migrants and to limit their arrivals; liberal-leaning news media and left-wing politicians have been accused of ignoring or playing down a real problem for fear of stigmatizing the new arrivals.
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As one response to the legacy of Bloody Sunday and many other bloody days, an Anglican archdeacon, Robert Miller, and a Catholic priest, Paul Farren, work together to promote the idea that forgiveness does not mean wiping out the past or playing down the enormity of the wrongs committed.
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Obama's Republican critics have accused him of giving up too much for too little from the Cuban government and of playing down human rights concerns to pursue rapprochement with Cuba, which began in December 2014 and is now seen as a major piece of his foreign policy legacy.
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When the N.F.L. agreed in 2012 to donate tens of millions of dollars to concussion research overseen by the National Institutes of Health, it was widely seen as a positive turning point in football's long history of playing down the long-term effects of brain injuries on players.
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Five officials said that Trump had grown appropriately concerned about the coronavirus outbreak after weeks of ignoring or playing down the threat, but that the administration is now rushing to solve issues that could have been addressed months ago, like obtaining the necessary supplies for the nation's emergency stockpile.
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So for the new study, which was published last month in PLOS One, researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and other institutions decided to investigate whether flipping a workout's focus and emphasizing its length while playing down its intensity might increase people's enjoyment and, potentially, participation.
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At the same time, the league in which they endured so much damage is attempting to avoid culpability by playing down any link between head hits and brain trauma even as it tries to make the game safer by changing the rules of the sport and adding concussion protocols.
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He even made the highly unusual move of playing down the significance of a statement of another top Foreign Ministry official who on Thursday called Vice President Mike Pence a "political dummy" and threatened Pyongyang would be just as willing to have a nuclear showdown with Washington as meet to negotiate.
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He also says the "vast majority" of developers who come to Thunkable are still looking to build native mobile apps — playing down the notion that interest might be shifting away from building native apps to developing apps for the big tech platforms that are increasingly boxing up mobile users' attention.
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Though the White House is playing down expectations, the visit gives him a significant opportunity to offer some tangible new initiatives to advance his vision of a nuclear-free world — a major goal at the outset of his administration that has since faded against a host of other foreign policy challenges.
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Wednesday's hearing followed a more sober session on Tuesday before the Senate Banking Committee, where Ms. Yellen laid out a cautious view of the economy's prospects, playing down the risk of recession while reiterating that near-term weakness may prompt the Fed to hold off on any imminent rate increases.
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President Trump's chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow told CNBC's Delivering Alpha conference Wednesday morning that he believes that Chinese President Xi Jinping is "holding the game up" on a trade deal with the United States — all while playing down the idea that the two countries are engaged in a trade war.
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TOKYO — President Trump kicked off the first full day of a state visit to Japan on Sunday by playing down North Korea's recent tests of short-range ballistic missiles, undercutting declarations by both Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the president's own national security adviser that the launches violated United Nations resolutions.
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On Thursday, Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $117 million in a settlement over the deceptive marketing of transvaginal pelvic mesh implants, and a jury this month ordered it to pay $8 billion to a Maryland man who accused the company of playing down the risks associated with the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
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On trade, government leaders and Chinese corporate chiefs have sought to strike a delicate balance: playing down worries about the effect on China of a protracted trade fight, while warning that the global economic system could be disrupted by a trade war and that the United States risks falling behind.
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Likewise, NATO officials struck a forward-looking note, playing down the apparent snub by Tillerson and instead confirming the summit date and announcing that its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg -- who was in Washington this week -- would return to the US capital for talks with the president ahead of the leaders' summit.
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What worries me most, however, is that for way too many years the Jets have displayed a maddening tendency to mess up, and unnecessarily so, by playing down to the level of mediocre opponents, losing their concentration at crucial junctures in key games, and blowing big leads (especially in the fourth quarter).
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While playing down the threat of the virus, Mr. Trump has scheduled events this week to try to demonstrate that he has a grip on the outbreak, including a visit to the National Institutes of Health on Tuesday and possibly one to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention later in the week.
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After first playing down his own intelligence officials' reports that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was responsible for the killing, Mr. Trump then blew past a legally mandated deadline that required the White House to report to Congress whether it believed the prince was personally responsible for Mr. Khashoggi's death.
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But in doing so, the authorities have acknowledged for the first time that Mr. Xi was aware of the epidemic and involved in the response nearly two weeks before he first spoke publicly about it — and while officials at its epicenter in the city of Wuhan were still playing down its dangers.
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Whatever the ironies, and even if Ms. Le Pen falls short, as the polls suggest, political analysts here say that her gender strategy is one of the reasons the National Front has gained ground — although she has long worked at repositioning the party, expelling her father and playing down its anti-Semitic past.
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USA-TRADE-CHINA/ China vice premier going to U.S. for trade talks despite Trump threats BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will visit the United States this week for trade talks, Beijing said on Tuesday, playing down a sudden increase in tensions after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose new tariffs.
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And it was Dr. Broecker who, in 1975, the same year as that National Academies report playing down the Younger Dryas, published a paper, titled "Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?" in which he predicted that emissions of carbon dioxide would raise global temperatures significantly in the 21st century.
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Despite the fits and starts over the trial, Pelosi and other House Democrats are playing down the prospect of an extended standoff with the Senate over the articles of impeachment passed by the House, however, signaling that it's only a matter of time before the House does in fact transmit them to the Senate.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT, July 43 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Monday: The German airline expects passenger numbers to rise about 4% this year, its chief executive told NZZ am Sonntag newspaper, playing down talk that public support for teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg might be curbing air travel.
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Both in a four-page written statement summarizing the report and at a news conference before releasing it to the public, Mr. Barr emphasized that Mr. Mueller had found no evidence that the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 elections, while playing down the findings that suggested the president may have obstructed justice.
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In a little-noticed strategy document published last month to guide law enforcement on emerging threats and in recent public appearances by Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, the department is trying to project a new vigilance about violent white nationalism, beating back criticism that the agency has spent a decade playing down the issue.
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Some rights groups have accused it of playing down the Rohingya's plight, while some critics in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, say it has advocated for the Rohingya at the expense of Rakhine's Buddhist majority, some of whom clashed with the Rohingya in 2012 in a spasm of violence further south in the state that left dozens dead.
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Despite the fits and starts over the trial, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats are playing down the prospect of an extended standoff with the Senate over the two articles of impeachment passed by the House Wednesday, signaling that it's only a matter of time before the House does in fact transmit them to the Senate.
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Which is most certainly true but once again you're playing down the level of political and societal concern about how your platform operates (and how you operate your platform) — deflecting and reframing what Facebook is to cast your ad business a form of quasi philanthropy; a comfortable discussion topic and self-serving idea you'd much prefer we were all sold on.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT, April 26 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Thursday: The European Central Bank is set to keep policy unchanged on Thursday, playing down worries over recent softness in the euro zone economy and leaving the door open to ending its lavish bond purchase scheme by the close of the year.
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Mr. Pompeo has shown a similar eagerness to express his views in public forums, making clear his skepticism of the Obama administration's deal to limit Iran's nuclear weapons program, playing down talk of Russian interference in the election last year, and talking at length about the need to stop North Korea's nuclear program, even if that means using military force.
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In 2005, protests and boycott calls erupted in China over changes to Japanese history textbooks that many in China saw as playing down the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army in World War II. Ahead of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, some people in China started a short-lived boycott of Carrefour, the French retailer, over pro-Tibet protests in Paris during the Olympic torch run.
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The letter he wrote to Congress in March said that the special counsel did not find evidence to establish a conspiracy by anyone on the Trump campaign to help Russia interfere in the election, and that Mr. Barr decided that Mr. Trump had not committed obstruction of justice, playing down the special counsel's fuller, more damning portrait of the president's attempts to impede the inquiry.
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Mr. Piccioli was in New York, in the Valentino offices overlooking Bryant Park, explaining why he had decided to unveil his prefall collection in Manhattan as a full-fledged runway show, even though more and more of his fellow designers are playing down this particular season, holding presentations instead of shows and refusing to release pictures until the clothes are in stores in April.
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This time around, under his daughter's control, the National Front has worked its way into the mainstream through a conscious "de-demonization" effort that focuses on nationalism, security, and anti-elitist populism, often by playing on the rising tide of Islamophobia in the country—"playing down the FN's (unpopular) anti-Semitism while playing up its (more popular) Islamophobia," as Mehdi Hasan put it in an op-ed on the Intercept.
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During some of Trump's worst news cycles — his attack on Judge Gonzalo Curiel, his poorly reviewed first debate, his hints last week that he might not accept the results of the election — some of his campaign surrogates have tried to minimize the damage: playing down Trump's remarks, admitting that he made a mistake, trying to get the media to change the subject to "the issues" he cares about.
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For Democrats determined to derail Judge Kavanaugh, his performance last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee — his dissembling about his teenage years; his playing down drinking in high school and college; his raw, angry emotions; and his broadsides against Democratic questioners — is proving to be a new avenue of attack, if the accusations of sexual assault are not enough to swing the votes of three key Republicans and two undecided Democrats.
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Amid prodding by my colleagues on these issues, he made only the vaguest of promises about firewalling himself off from his companies and investments, while constantly stressing that no clear conflict-of-interest laws govern the presidency, playing down the appearance of corruption as inconsequential and basically suggesting that he intends to continue the kind of seemingly self-dealing moments (photo ops with business partners, self-interested comments to foreign politicians) that have already cropped up during his transition.
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