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But finding that compromise is growing more difficult by the day, candidates and advisers acknowledge, because liberals are resisting what they call a watered-down bill, while conservatives are winning by just saying no.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

But finding that compromise is growing more difficult by the day, candidates and advisers acknowledge, because liberals are resisting what they call a watered-down bill, while conservatives are winning by just saying no.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

Then, in watered down form, Bush vaguely referenced the "deeper challenges" (of poverty and racism) that he mentioned in his famous Jackson Square speech.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

To help them "dedicate their lives to prayer", they spent prolonged periods of time in isolated hermitages, each of which had a prayer-room (oratorio), a small cell, and a fruit and flower garden, watered from a fountain.

On the edge of Mexico City: barefoot monks in a national park 2008

To help them "dedicate their lives to prayer", they spent prolonged periods of time in isolated hermitages, each of which had a prayer-room (oratorio), a small cell, and a fruit and flower garden, watered from a fountain.

On the edge of Mexico City: barefoot monks in a national park 2008

Then, in watered down form, Bush vaguely referenced the "deeper challenges" (of poverty and racism) that he mentioned in his famous Jackson Square speech.

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

But the notion at its core, that rock-and-roll already existed, but needed white performers to inoculate its potential audience from the perceived social stigma of its origins, is a powerful enough narrative to have been refashioned in watered-down form ever since, whether in the form of blue-eyed soul or (most notoriously) in the case of Vanilla Ice, greeted as the purported Elvis of hip-hop.

The long grave already dug Matthew Guerrieri 2007

But the notion at its core, that rock-and-roll already existed, but needed white performers to inoculate its potential audience from the perceived social stigma of its origins, is a powerful enough narrative to have been refashioned in watered-down form ever since, whether in the form of blue-eyed soul or (most notoriously) in the case of Vanilla Ice, greeted as the purported Elvis of hip-hop.

Archive 2007-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

That is all well and good, but how many times have we seen terrific craft brews gobbled up by big brewers only to see the distinctive flavors disappear, resulting in watered down beers that are mere shadows of their former selves?

The New York Cork Report: 2007

And the grass/weeds in our (vacant) uphill lot that never gets watered is about 1/2 green (That's my barometer for when the rain is here for good).

weather/rain 2004