Fear of Diluting Authority Vatican officials and bishops from other nations have always feared that the Americans hierarchy's use of wide public consultation before issuing pastoral letters could weaken authority, and the Americans said at their news conference that this concern was voiced during the session.

Studies are under way to see if they, too, could be diluted.

Can be diluted by a factor of one or two.

If you do more than that, you're going to dilute it.

Both issues would dilute the value of the current stock.

Nothing was diluted by adding one week to the season.

They thought it would be wrong to dilute their message again.

But his essential force had not been cut or diluted.

Will they sit back and watch their dream be diluted?

Such a solution would only dilute their interest in the company.

He tried not to look and let his anger dilute.

Instead, his stake would be diluted to about 46 percent.

Such a move might drive away support by diluting the bill's impact.

"And you dilute the information, because at each step some details are taken out."

It is a movie whose message has not been diluted by time.

Everything offered to him might have diluted the message of the film he turned down.

All cocaine is diluted for the street, usually one to five.

I think it would dilute the funding of the public schools.

The drug was diluted, and some drank more than others.

Diluted, on the street, it would be worth five hundred times that.

It can be diluted before use on plants and animals.

"That dilutes the relationship you have with a director," she says.

"This is a good move since the final price will be diluted to a certain extent."

But the savings would be diluted since the budget is so late in the year.

The Government noted that the bill had been diluted from its original form.

I hope that the extra money will not be enough to get them to dilute this.