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.
The SCMP's wire summary said the proposed law is a watered-down version of the original.
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So forget all preconceptions of happy hours past with their watered-down margaritas and two-for-one deals.
Politically correct thinking replaces individuality and authentic opinions with socially acceptable rhetoric and watered-down behavioral tendencies.
Watered-down U.N. resolutions will have no impact on the Iranian drive for a bomb.
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.
Real change, not the politically correct version, is built upon seeking the truth, and not some watered-down version thereof.
Mr Hazare's protest is aimed against what he regards as a watered-down anti-corruption bill introduced by the Indian government.
It begins with a watered-down, self-conscious echo of the Declaration of Independence in its cry for less intrusive federal 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.
We walk on eggshells in a watered-down education system where teachers lack the courage to be honest and speak their minds.
"Again, I urge Congress to pass bipartisan, comprehensive legislation, rather than a watered-down bill written by the tobacco lobby, " he said.
The United States has already co-sponsored one somewhat watered-down version of this initiative at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Speaking to BBC Radio Four's World at One, described TPims as "watered-down control orders" which grant "more freedoms" to terror suspects.
It would be a watered-down version of the line-item veto presidents have long craved but the Supreme Court has found unconstitutional.
And even if some watered-down new scheme eventually wins approval, it will do little to ease the plight of ordinary Iraqis.
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.
The U.S. and the IMF are, in effect, advocating a watered-down version of the 1930s concept of beggar-thy- neighbor through competitive devaluations.
But the suit doesn't provide figures for the allegedly watered-down alcohol content.
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