And, further ahead, the terms of the pact itself may yet be watered down.
However, he did not mention the 75% figure, leading some to speculate that the move would be watered down.
We're going to insist that Wall Street reform be implemented and that it not be watered down or appealed.
Now, all of a sudden in this big search for the truth, everything has to be watered down and clouded.
This is to say nothing of Eliot Spitzer's bungled global Wall Street settlement and a soon-to-be watered down Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Now, following a campaign, Mr Clarke has said the proposals will be watered down and a plan for secret inquests dropped altogether.
The green at the short seventh had to be watered during the final round to avoid making a mockery of the world's best players.
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There is a chance that these proposals could be watered down.
So those who are experiencing the pain and trauma of the black experience in this country don't want their rallying cry to be watered down with a generic feel-good catchphrase.
Wine producers in the Colchagua valley say that damage to irrigation systems meant that some fields could not be watered for up to two weeks after the earthquake.
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The statement comes after speculation that the policy - which Labour says means the Tories would cut spending on schools and hospitals - was going to be watered down.
But it was on the treatment of the unions that created most reaction from the floor which led to calls on assurances that the Fairness at Work white paper would not be watered down.
Of course, that might well be watered down by an Alliance government (and the constitution, in its latest form, though it enshrines Argentina's claim, also implicitly disavows the use of force to achieve it).
From what I have been reading in trade publications like Investment News, it looks like the fiduciary standard provision may not make it into the current financial reform law and if it does it could be watered down.
The Lib Dems have consistently argued that the bill be watered down, and their leader - and deputy prime minister - Nick Clegg has said the changes already made will make the health service "stronger and more sustainable".
To ease their pain, the government said on April 4th that one of the most fiercely contested parts of the bill would be watered down: judges will retain the power to order reinstatement (and not just compensation) for workers dismissed for economic reasons.
"The lawn needs to be watered, the cat box is stinky, there are dirty socks in the living room, silverware in the grass out back, and I can't get those children to get to bed at 7:30 no matter how hard I try, " he says.
His effort to break up and privatise the road-building agency, the Japan Public Highway Corporation, had to be heavily watered down.
It would be a watered-down version of the line-item veto presidents have long craved but the Supreme Court has found unconstitutional.
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.
Indeed, the only BBA likely to make it through the legislative process and be sent to the states almost certainly will be so watered down that it would become a positive fiscal endangerment itself, setting the stage for future Congresses to balance the budget up with higher taxes.
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While the measure is popular with Mr Hollande's supporters on the left, some analysts think it may be dropped or watered down, possibly by raising the income level at which it is paid.
In both cases, he suggests that it might be better to push through watered-down versions of the reforms than to risk total failure.
Opponents worry that it would lead to rising energy costs and is too watered-down to be meaningful anyway.
Mr Innes worries that a promising method of fighting crime will be compromised by central targets and watered down by police forces who try to pick and choose the bits they like.
Games should be more like Russian literature, or watered down past recognition, draped them in the gaudy drag of film.
Many banking analysts have said they expect the provision to be completely removed from the final bill or watered down significantly.
In a conference call this week, John McEnroe said the courts at Roland Garros aren't watered as often as they used to be.
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.
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