de-emphasize

Does this day of Holocaust remembrance seek to de-emphasize the particular importance of the Nazi dream of destroying the Jewish people?

Brad Hirschfield: Holocaust Remembrance: Who Owns Memory? Brad Hirschfield 2011

I've heard it said that modern libraries too often de-emphasize books in favor of electronic material.

Libraries 2009

Based on the study, Smart planned to de-emphasize interdiction to concentrate on the new target systems: “[The aim is to] bring about defeat of the enemy as expeditiously as possible [rather than] allowing him to languish in comparative quiescence while we expand our efforts beating up supply routes.”

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

Does this day of Holocaust remembrance seek to de-emphasize the particular importance of the Nazi dream of destroying the Jewish people?

Brad Hirschfield: Holocaust Remembrance: Who Owns Memory? Brad Hirschfield 2011

Economist Carmen Reinhart of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington predicts a downgrade will accelerate efforts by governments on both sides of the Atlantic to de-emphasize rating-firm opinions, a particularly convenient move at a time when governments are borrowing so heavily.

Would a Credit Downgrade Matter? David Wessel 2011

Now some Republicans wondered if the party should de-emphasize its antislavery values in an effort to attract voters.

Before he became the national icon, Lincoln was a shrewd candidate Sally Jenkins 2010

And wired to zero in on any apparent bad news in a larger stream of information (e.g., fixing on a casual aside from a family member or co-worker), to tune out or de-emphasize reassuring good news, and to keep thinking about the one thing that was negative in a day in which a hundred small things happened, ninety-nine of which were neutral or positive.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Confronting the Negativity Bias Ph.D. Rick Hanson 2010

And wired to zero in on any apparent bad news in a larger stream of information (e.g., fixing on a casual aside from a family member or co-worker), to tune out or de-emphasize reassuring good news, and to keep thinking about the one thing that was negative in a day in which a hundred small things happened, ninety-nine of which were neutral or positive.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Confronting the Negativity Bias Ph.D. Rick Hanson 2010

And wired to zero in on any apparent bad news in a larger stream of information (e.g., fixing on a casual aside from a family member or co-worker), to tune out or de-emphasize reassuring good news, and to keep thinking about the one thing that was negative in a day in which a hundred small things happened, ninety-nine of which were neutral or positive.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Confronting the Negativity Bias Ph.D. Rick Hanson 2010

Because the Billboard Top 25 tends to "really de-emphasize the last half of the year," Mr. Roseman based the 2011 "United States of Pop" recording, also titled "World Goes Boom," on weekly charts, to account for late-breaking hits.

Messages in 2011's Music Marshall Heyman 2011