| He was turning music I grew up on into a watered-down fad, a moneymaking thing. |
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| But some believe new management will translate into a watered-down editorial focus. |
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| You'd be served fast-food burgers, cold fries and a watered-down soft drink. |
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| In the '80s, several low-cal wines flopped because they tasted watered-down. |
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| It's more watered-down than our point of view, but they're reaching a lot more people. |
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| This is no watered-down ghost story thrown into theaters for teenage consumption. |
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| What's onscreen is a watered-down version of Solaris's deliciously smart sci-fi. |
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| The upshot was that, although approved, the reforms were too watered-down to have any serious effect on the deficit. |
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| They set out a plate of cold, stringy beef and a bowl of runny, watered-down soup, then left. |
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| Throwing the disc into my player I didn't quite know what to expect, perhaps a watered-down Herbie Goes Bananas knock-off, only animated. |
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| Having seen the final cut, it's mind-boggling to believe that such a watered-down version was ever considered. |
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| Albeit a somewhat watered-down analog of garlic, their more malodorous cousin, raw onions are one of the best medicinal foods. |
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| Change and positive solutions can come from the middle, and not just ones that are watered-down or mediocre. |
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| That loophole has been exploited by opportunist operators who produce watered-down spirits and market them as the real thing. |
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| They embody a demoralized liberalism, whose watered-down perspective of reform has been discarded by the ruling class. |
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| To the fur traders they were commodities who could be purchased and indentured to company stores through watered-down alcohol and cheaply made goods. |
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| The usual bottles of watered-down Jameson will be presented. |
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| Similarly, three years later, the government managed to win parliamentary approval for only a watered-down version of the measure abolishing religious orders. |
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| The official, watered-down version is that Masonry originated from the stone craft guilds. |
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| The USA Freedom Act, once lauded by privacy and technology groups, passed the House today in a watered-down form. |
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| We adopted a watered-down version of the Harvard blueprint with our daughters. |
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| He apparently hoped to bring in the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, using some watered-down compromise on the military draft. |
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| Today's vector products are a watered-down version of quaternion multiplication. |
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| After skin contact immediately rinse with watered-down vinegar. |
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| It didn't become a follow-up type record where you just start writing about having a good time on the road or that kind of dreadful watered-down rubbish. |
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| The contractors had already sprayed for cockies, fleas, flies and mice but the cockies were guaranteed to re-emerge once the effect of the watered-down spray lost its potency. |
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| They're tourist traps, watered-down drinks. |
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| He was also concerned that a watered-down plan would not have strong U.S. and Egyptian backing, which is viewed as crucial to a successful implementation. |
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| You know, squirting is watered-down urine. |
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| Minority official language researchers would not support watered-down procedures distributing funds to research projects that are of questionable quality or incapable of meeting competitive standards. |
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| In the end, ICCAT adopted a watered-down proposal for a voluntary stakeholder workshop to be held in March 2008 to discuss the future management of this fishery. |
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| It is a watered-down percolation compared with the eye-twitchingly strong varieties sold in little thimbles in many European cafés, but it is coffee nonetheless. |
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| In capturing an outright parliamentary majority in the 2012 election, the nominally left-wing Smer successfully adopted a watered-down form of nationalism to subsume nationalist voters. |
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| Watered-down paint soaks into the porous concrete so it won't flake or peel like surface paint does. |
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