But it was one that needed some major soft-pedaling for the public.
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Trump supporters spent months telling us they despised political correctness, the soft pedaling of hard reality.
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Remarkably, she directly contradicted the ongoing soft-pedaling by the Executive of Russian operations targeting the country.
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Pointing this out could be construed as anti-labor, or soft-pedaling the seriousness of brain damage.
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The case has raised suspicions that the city's Law Department itself has been soft-pedaling police misconduct cases.
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"However, Trump undercut the power of his proposals by soft-pedaling the cost of such a buildup," he wrote.
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I could wrap my stories in self-deprecation, soft-pedaling my accomplishments in the way women are trained to.
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Bernie Sanders relatively soft-pedaling the China issue, Democratic frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden is going the other direction entirely.
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While unusually offensive, it was only one in a string of Holocaust denial and soft-pedaling statements by the Trump White House.
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The attorneys general have based their inquiries on whether Exxon's alleged soft-pedaling of climate risks or carbon regulation amounts to securities fraud.
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HONG KONG — "Bohemian Rhapsody," the Queen biopic, has been faulted by some Western audiences and critics for soft-pedaling Freddie Mercury's relationships with men.
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To be sure, there are plenty of prominent Republicans who have remained silent or who are soft-pedaling any criticism of the White House.
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Germany's political class is doing the country an egregious disfavor by soft-pedaling its muscular, state-of-the-art efforts in labor market integration.
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It is not as if the Port Authority has been soft-pedaling the impending opening of the Oculus, the birdlike main hall at the hub.
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But Mr. Trump did not single out China for criticism, continuing a pattern of soft-pedaling on a dispute that could annoy United States allies.
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Some of Gandhi's fiercer critics may feel this is soft-pedaling, but it does help build a fair, thorough and nuanced portrait of the man.
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Exxon faces investigations by the Massachusetts and New York attorneys general into whether it has misled the public and investors by soft-pedaling climate change risks.
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Dr. Herman and Professor Chomsky were severely criticized over the years as soft-pedaling evidence of genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda and, during the Bosnia war, Srebrenica.
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While the two look to expand trade and cooperation in areas like agriculture and water management, India is soft-pedaling its support for the Palestinian cause.
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The letter enraged Democrats who had already accused Barr of soft-pedaling the seriousness of Mueller's findings in his public statements before the report was released.
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But it does go a way to explaining why Obama is soft-pedaling his criticism of Trump in this instance when previously he has been more forthright.
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I tried to be as honest as I could, but I feel like I still was soft-pedaling things, at least in the book about my mother.
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Climate change featured in Xi's bilateral meetings with Pacific countries, which are concerned by Washington's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and Australia's soft pedaling on the issue.
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Soft-pedaling human rights may also help Washington avoid alienating countries in Southeast Asia that it wants to keep from moving further into China's orbit, those aides said.
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But Wheeler pushed back against Oliver and various other critics (including me) who felt the FCC was soft-pedaling on net neutrality and on regulating telecom companies in general.
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Though such a policy would be in keeping with the traditional U.S. approach to removing sanctions, many policymakers have criticized this potential delisting as another example of soft-pedaling.
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Taking Mr. Deng's lead, China played the junior partner, if not always deferential then at least soft-pedaling its ambitions and avoiding conflict with the much stronger United States.
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Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon said on Wednesday the government will need to adjust its wage policies, signalling some future soft-pedaling in the drive to raise minimum wages.
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"Joe Biden is a friend of mine, and we worked together on some issues when he was vice president," Sanders said, soft-pedaling his answer as the Democratic crowd listened carefully.
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In a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, Warren also faulted unnamed Democrats for soft-pedaling their rhetoric for political reasons.
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Having spent 2018 promising to hold Trump accountable if they won power, Democrats then spent most of 2019 soft-pedaling oversight out of fear of being stampeded by their own base into impeaching Trump.
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Instead of condemning Putin or even soft-pedaling an answer that still sided with U.S. intelligence, Trump attacked FBI investigators, refused to blame Putin, and then turned the conversation back to his obsession with Hillary Clinton's missing emails.
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Clinton have any plans, advisers say, to take cues from the Brexit campaign and start soft-pedaling her support for globalized markets, or denouncing porous borders, illegal immigrants and the lack of job protections in free-trade agreements.
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Mr. Trump has denounced abuses by Iran, Cuba and China — adversaries at odds with the United States on many issues — while soft-pedaling the egregious behavior of repressive political favorites like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and even North Korea.
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A group of state attorneys general, led by New York's Eric Schneiderman, brought a securities fraud suit against the world's largest publicly traded oil company in 2015 claiming it misled investors by soft-pedaling the dangers of climate change.
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Should anyone working to help families affected by President Trump's immigration policies take money from Mark Zuckerberg, whose soft-pedaling of Russian interference in the 2016 election allowed anti-immigrant hate to spread and potentially helped Mr. Trump gain votes?
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While taking pains not to make the midterm elections a referendum on Trump himself — a strategy that backfired on the party in 2016 — they're attacking Capitol Hill Republicans for soft-pedaling the many controversies swirling around the president and his administration.
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A group of state attorneys general, led by New York, said in March they would go after the world's largest publicly traded oil company for allegedly violating securities laws by soft-pedaling the dangers of climate change and efforts to fight it.
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That's actually a pretty sympathetic take, considering how little Mr. Reed thinks of "Hamilton," which he accuses of, among other things, turning a blind eye to the Schuyler family's ownership of slaves and soft-pedaling Alexander Hamilton's elitist politics and his attitude toward slavery.
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That's why Democrats are struggling between being frank about Trump voters -- people who knowingly put a bigot in the White House -- and speaking hard truths about current racial divides and soft-pedaling their views about voters who chose Trump in 2016 but might be persuaded to choose differently in 2020.
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I think with a number of television shows—and also the Marvel movies—there's this [pattern] where as the villains stick around they become softened, and become more like anti-heroes or allies of the heroes, and I think in this case they did something really smart by continuing to reveal different aspects of him without ever soft-pedaling the monstrousness of what he was doing.
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Bhatt found "no ambivalence or soft-pedaling" in the book, praising Oluo for being "even-keeled" when discussing her personal experiences. Ferguson criticised the use of the term "Indigenous American" in the book as an example of "Oluo's own basic assumptions that create an inhospitable climate for other racially marked bodies". Oluo responded that future editions of the book would instead use the term "indigenous peoples". Bhatt suggested that a further reading list would have improved the book.
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In 2011 Bose published His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire, a biography of his great uncle Subhas Bose. The biography, a trade book, has been criticised in scholarly reviews for soft-pedaling or oversimplifying Subhas Chandra Bose's alliances with Italian Fascism, German National Socialism, and Japanese imperialism. The book has also been criticised for its optimistic speculations on what Subhas Bose might have accomplished had he lived. Some popular reviews have been more positive.
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But Bush and other GOP candidates "kicked that away" in 1990 by raising taxes, sidestepping abortion and other social issues, and soft-pedaling their anti-communism while rooting for Mikhail Gorbachev to succeed. "We are going to have to go back to the things that got us here," Finkelstein said.Harwood, John, "National Conservatives Concerned About Movement's Future", St. Petersburg Times, February 8, 1991. Meanwhile, D'Amato faced mounting ethical problems, and these occupied much of Finkelstein's time in 1990 and 1991. Though the New York senator was ultimately cleared by the Senate Ethics Committee in 1991,Turner, Douglas, "Ethics Panel Absolves D'Amato; Ruling Chides Senator for Allowing Misuse of Office", Buffalo News, August 3, 1991.
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Whitson, wrote Benjamin Weinthal in the Jerusalem Post in 2011, "has long been a controversial figure within human rights circles." A former board member of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, she has been widely criticized for praising, or soft-pedaling criticism of, Arab countries while disproportionately targeting Israel for censure. Whitson's argument that Muammar Qaddafi's son Saif al-Islam represented a major force for reform in Libya was widely disparaged in Israel, as were her remarks about the "pro-Israel lobby" at a HRW fundraising dinner in Saudi Arabia. George Mason University law professor David Bernstein has noted that Whitson's official biography at HRW's website omits her active membership in the New York chapter of the American-Arab Antidiscrimination Committee, where she had served on the Steering Committee before joining the Board of Directors.
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