They soft-pedaled their dissent on his trade and immigration policies.
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But based on what we've seen, even those seem likely to be soft-pedaled.
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Moreover, Mr. Trump soft-pedaled his call for China not to colonize the South China Sea.
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Fox programs have soft-pedaled the government's shortcomings and promoted an imminent rollback of social distancing restrictions.
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Mr. Trump earlier had soft-pedaled his grievances in return for Mr. Xi's help on North Korea.
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Slavery and racism will be neither soft-pedaled nor portrayed as the totality of the black experience.
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But in real life, doctors, at the request of Gehrig's wife, soft-pedaled the news, saying he might live.
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Mr. Trump has soft-pedaled his trade talk against China to enlist its support in curbing the North Korean government.
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Their jailings and expulsions were soft-pedaled, say critics, in order to keep transactions with the East's leaderships on track.
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An engineered meat whose freakishness has been soft-pedaled by winky-face marketing and a jolly dude in a chef's hat?
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It has used the issue as a cudgel against Venezuela and Iran, but soft-pedaled with Saudi Arabia and North Korea.
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And reacting to liberal outrage on Twitter, the Times changed a headline that some said soft-pedaled one of Trump's racial controversies.
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The president has soft-pedaled the humming economy — 103,000 jobs added in October — instead railing against an "invasion" of migrants seeking asylum.
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Mr. Trump has soft-pedaled his economic rhetoric against China in order to enlist its support in curbing the North Korean regime.
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Mr. Mueller may have soft-pedaled an inquiry into Hillary Clinton's approval of the 2010 sale of American uranium assets to the Russians.
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Reconstructing the first seven weeks of its spread, our reporters showed how the authorities silenced doctors and others for raising red flags and soft-pedaled the danger.
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To secure Mr. Xi's cooperation, the president soft-pedaled his harsh stance on China's trade practices, and has said little about its adventurism in the South China Sea.
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Even as Mr. Duterte has soft-pedaled on territorial disputes in the South China Sea, Beijing has steadily built up military bases on islets also claimed by the Philippines.
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In Mr. Trump's meetings with Mr. Kim — the first for a sitting president and a North Korean leader — he soft-pedaled traditional American concerns like regional security and human rights.
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Whereas President Obama soft-pedaled gun control in both his national runs, Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, is signaling a greater appetite to clash with Mr. Trump on the issue.
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The topic is known to be one whose mere mention irritates the president, but the piece soft-pedaled the part most galling to Trump, making just one passing reference to Russia.
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Public utterances like Mr. Trump's have and should inspire outrage, but we need to go deeper, challenging the racist views — both flagrant and soft-pedaled — that have long shaped America's immigration policy.
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" Cook also soft-pedaled on trade deal talk, saying, "I'm hoping that the U.S. and China come to an agreement, and so I don't even want to go down that road right now.
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And he said Mr. Trump had lied — a word that is often soft-pedaled in Washington — when he justified the firing by saying Mr. Comey had lost the confidence of an F.B.I. in disarray.
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Like most soft-pedaled children's movies, their Addams family makes a vague gesture toward a meaningful life lesson — in this case, a timely message about the importance of recognizing people's humanity, regardless of their differences.
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Pompeo's comments on Russia are particularly notable as President Donald Trump has often soft-pedaled criticism of the country and its President, Vladimir Putin, despite US intelligence assessments that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
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In 2010, political scientists Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer reported that a large majority of high school biology teachers soft-pedaled evolution, and as high as 21 percent endorsed creationism or its cousin, intelligent design, in their classes.
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Last year, Scholastic pulled its picture book "A Birthday Cake for George Washington" from stores after criticism that it soft-pedaled slavery by leaving out the grimmer details of the life of an enslaved baker, who eventually escaped.
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Tsai, who leads the independence-leaning ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has never conceded to Beijing's view that Taiwan is a part of China, although she has soft-pedaled the issue since taking office in May last year.
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On the lively Holland composition "Pass It On," Blake kicks off with a cantering drum solo — his soft-pedaled, high-impact playing reminiscent of Barron's own style — before he and Holland lock into a kick-stepping groove that's loose but secure.
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Echoing sentiments that he expressed on Twitter, and in e-mails sent to his SpaceX employees earlier, Musk soft-pedaled the seriousness of the novel coronavirus and wrote that "panic" was a bigger problem in his view than the infectious disease.
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This is not just the group's opinion — the planet's warming and many of the likely effects form a consensus in the scientific community and the United Nations — but many world leaders have soft-pedaled or been accused of lying outright to avoid dealing with this terrifying reality.
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Muhammadu Buhari is seeking a second term in those elections, but his campaign has taken a hit from accusations he has soft-pedaled justice for one of the sides responsible for the clashes, the herders, many of whom come from the same Fulani ethnic group as the leader.
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Though organizers have pledged to keep costs within budgeted estimates, this has not included an estimated 3 billion yen ($27 million) to move marathons and race walk events to the northern city of Sapporo to cope with Tokyo's searing summer heat - an issue soft-pedaled in Tokyo's bid.
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At the news conference where his appointment was announced, Mr. Carranza declared that there was "no daylight" between himself and the mayor, which makes it hard to know how much he will set a new course for the school system or push on issues, like segregation, that the administration has soft-pedaled.
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But "The More You Know," about raising a teenage son in the age of you-know-who, and the homely, specific, devastating "Not Aretha's Respect (Cops)," about "I'm trying to teach him to Not Get Shot," are the best protest songs yet by an antifolk ranter who's never soft-pedaled his militantly nonviolent anarchism.
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What's more, the Justice Department claimed, GSK selectively and misleadingly released information about three studies it had conducted of the drug: It hired a consulting company to write a journal article that played up evidence from one study that the drug worked better as a treatment for pediatric depression than a placebo, played down (better) evidence from the same study that it hadn't, and soft-pedaled the side effects.
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Some liberals complained that the film soft- pedaled Andrew Johnson's prejudice toward black people. Actor and comedian Zero Mostel, who was then just becoming a well-known name in show business, took part in protests against the movie.Zero Mostel: a Biography (1989), Jared Brown, Atheneum, NY (). Pp. 35-36.
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The six track EP, "Dirt Nap," reflected the alt-country directions the new lineup was headed in as they "slowly soft- pedaled their jam influences, tightened the songcraft and continued to sharpen their harmonies." It was released in January 2014 as a free/pay what you want download on Bandcamp.
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127, Oregon critic David Stabler reported: > Instead of the feel of discovery, freshness and unpredictability, we heard > more tempered playing. Instead of sharpness and strength in the opening of > the E-Flat Quartet, the soft-pedaled sounds suggested a different way of > engaging with the music. Less about surprise and urgency, more about knowing > and acceptance. For the Guarneri, it was ground well trodden.
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The Young Lions, Shaw's first novel, was published in 1948. Based on his experiences in Europe during the war, the novel was very successful and was adapted into a 1958 film. Shaw was not happy with the film, feeling it soft-pedaled some of the serious issues from his book, but it did well at the box office. Shaw's second novel, The Troubled Air, chronicling the rise of McCarthyism, was published in 1951.
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He was also associated with former Member of Parliament John A. Gamble, who worked with Gostick as Canadian leader of the World Anti-Communist League in the 1980s.The Heritage Front Affair Report to the Solicitor General of Canada, Security Intelligence Review Committee, section 7.6.8, December 9, 1994. David Lethbridge, an anti-fascist activist and Communist Party member, described the CLR and Gostick as a "danger" because they soft-pedaled an essentially "fascist" message.
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Putin had soft-pedaled his response to the opposition during the Sochi Olympics, warned Kara-Murza in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal (26 February 2014). Now that the prestigious international event was ended the Russian president was rapidly returning to his former oppressive behaviour. Only hours after the closing ceremony in Sochi a Moscow court handed prison sentences to seven of the May 2012 Bolotnaya Square protestors. Pressure was brought to bear not only within Russia.
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Bayard disagreed with the bellicose tone of the message, which he attributed to an effort to satisfy Anglophobia among "Radical Republicans and the foolish Irishmen." Olney, for his part, thought Bayard soft-pedaled the note and asked Cleveland to remove Bayard from office, which Cleveland declined. The House of Representatives agreed with Olney, and passed a resolution of censure against Bayard in December 1895. Britain and Venezuela formally agreed to arbitration in February 1897, one month before the Cleveland administration came to an end.
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The newsreels of FDR were staged to hide his hobbled gait caused by polio.Doherty, pp. 81–82. Caught between the desire to present accurate hard-hitting news stories and the need to keep an audience in the mood for the upcoming entertainment, newsreels often soft-pedaled the difficulties Americans faced during the early years of the Great Depression.Doherty, pp. 208, 213–215. FDR in particular received favorable treatment from Hollywood, with all five of the major studios producing pro-FDR shorts by late 1933.
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Maila posits that the integral socialism proclaimed by Lenin, then soft-pedaled under NEP, resumed by Stalin and pursued by all his successors until Gorbachev, was basically flawed, precisely because it destructed capitalism integrally. The untrammeled socialist project was from the start an uphill battle, which brought about not only the destruction of economic freedom but of almost any freedom. The Soviet system could therefore not tap the reservoir of human potential that its ideology promised to bring to new heights. Malia also wrote a famous essay "To the Stalin Mausoleum" (1990) which he signed as Z. The essay was reprinted in Eastern Europe...Central Europe...Europe which was edited by Stephen R. Graubard.
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In the first episode of the second season, titled "Enter Alexis", the mysterious witness removes her sunglasses to reveal British actress Joan Collins as a new arrival to the series. Collins's Alexis Carrington blazed a trail across the show and its story lines; the additions of Collins and the "formidable writing team" of Eileen and Robert Mason Pollock are generally credited with Dynasty subsequent rise in the Nielsen ratings. The Pollocks "soft-pedaled the business angle" of the show and "bombarded viewers with every soap opera staple in the book, presented at such a fast clip that a new tragedy seemed to befall the Carrington family every five minutes." Alexis's testimony notwithstanding, Krystle is immediately put off by the former Mrs.
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