That watered-down bill, now headed to the full House, passed the committee by 10 votes.
The communique was a watered-down version of what the British had hoped to achieve.
So forget all preconceptions of happy hours past with their watered-down margaritas and two-for-one deals.
On the one hand it is not satisfied even with the watered-down version of the treaty.
The Obama administration has already associated itself with a watered-down version of this initiative.
But the government programme launched last week offered only vague and watered-down versions of these plans.
The bill was off and on all week with, at week's end, only a watered-down version surviving.
In the other camp are those expecting the Fed to provide only a watered-down version of quantitative easing.
But under pressure from Wall Street, regulators decided to delay implementing most of even the watered-down new regulations.
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Opponents worry that it would lead to rising energy costs and is too watered-down to be meaningful anyway.
Italy will be the first real test of whether even the new, watered-down version of them will prevail.
Mr Hazare's protest is aimed against what he regards as a watered-down anti-corruption bill introduced by the Indian government.
U.ed drove Spratt and, to a lesser extent, Conrad to write watered-down resolutions that included as little detail as necessary.
So on the summit's second day, its chairman, Ruud Lubbers, the Dutch prime minister, presented a greatly watered-down social chapter.
They now appear - and we still don't know the full details - to have accepted a watered-down version of that.
"Again, I urge Congress to pass bipartisan, comprehensive legislation, rather than a watered-down bill written by the tobacco lobby, " he said.
It would be a watered-down version of the line-item veto presidents have long craved but the Supreme Court has found unconstitutional.
With no access to colored inks, prisoners use watered-down black ink to create shadows and depth a technique called "fine-line" tattooing.
Although watered-down in terms of union transparency, the bill has the potential to increase productivity, to boost employment, and to improve competitiveness.
But the suit doesn't provide figures for the allegedly watered-down alcohol content.
U. policy is nonexistent in critical fronts and watered-down in the remaining.
In both cases, he suggests that it might be better to push through watered-down versions of the reforms than to risk total failure.
Mexico's Zapatist movement said it would continue its rebellion, after Congress had approved a watered-down version of a law to promote Indian rights.
Yet, even in its watered-down form, the idea is still worth pursuing, for it may prove the basis for greater independence in the future.
This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics.
The reform bill does include significant, if watered-down, restrictions on proprietary trading and hedge fund investments by banks, practices blamed for exacerbating the 2008 financial crisis.
Under a passport system covering the European Economic Area (a broader, watered-down version of the European Union), investors were supposedly covered by the Icelandic deposit-insurance scheme.
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It feels so different, in fact, that we initially thought it was some sort of watered-down plastic version meant to be sold at a lower price.
His replacement, Julia Gillard, came up with a mining tax so watered-down that two of the biggest mining companies operating in Australia have paid nothing to date.
The Reorganization Act gave the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff real power over the services so that his advice to the President would not be a watered-down compromise.
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