As every schoolchild should know, water moves from a dilute to a concentrated solution through a semipermeable membrane by a process called osmosis.
The other, more straightforward argument is that to welcome the greatest number of people, yoga has to dilute itself a little.
Indeed, the mutants were no more interested in a dilute sugar solution (or, indeed, a solution of artificial sweetener) than they were in plain water though they did respond to concentrated solutions of sweetness.
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And in Zambia, they say that British American Tobacco has helped to dilute proposals for a smoke-free law.
Though Macquarie and Newbridge were prepared to bring Netcom and Hong Kong investors into their consortia and dilute themselves into a minority position, it was not enough.
In principle, Mr Hastert might seek to pass a budget with the help of Democratic votes by agreeing to increase spending and dilute Republican demands for a big tax cut.
The idea seems to be only fueling shareholder ire as a PIPE would dilute existing stock equity and could deprive investors of a sale premium.
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Some observers say that Premji was pressed to dilute his stake by a regulatory requirement that all listed companies have a minimum 25% public holding.
Because so many of New Orleans' black residents had been displaced by the storm, there was concern that somehow holding an election yesterday would dilute black power in a city that's had an African-American mayor since 1978.
To support such a rise, EZ would almost certainly have to dilute shares somewhat and increase overhead expenses, making the target price a bit high in this example.
Both Lee and Kim Jong Pil call the Chungchung region of central South Korea home, a coincidence that could dilute the oppositionist's strength.
Crazy though it sounded, it fed into a broader suspicion that BAC would need to raise a lot of capital to resolve its Countrywide legacy, and that it would have to do this in a way that would dilute the value of outstanding shares.
Currently, Target does not have stores outside the U.S. and Canada, so European woes should not be a drag on earnings or dilute potential future performance.
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Hadoop is rising to prominence in an era of ubiquitous cloud computing and proven models for Software-as-a-Service, which dilute the power of some of the traditional models for commercializing open source.
The Northern Alliance, and in particular the Tajik-dominated Jamiat-i-Islami faction, which controls Kabul, has little apparent reason to go along with a process that is likely to dilute its power.
We are one of the first companies to emerge from the so-called patent cliff, and the last thing I want is to acquire a declining revenue line which would dilute our future growth profile.
If the FDA doesn't approve his inhaler, called Afrezza, this year, the company may have to dilute itself by selling discounted stock or use a line of credit just to make it halfway through next year.
But all this might dilute the importance of the City of London as a big financial centre, a prospect that troubles the Conservatives.
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We do not feel that a smaller, lower priced tablet will dilute the quality of the iPad brand and iOS ecosystem either, despite prior comments by the company.
But regulators at the FTC have taken a different view, saying that such payments dilute the purpose of the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984.
The chill in relations has been prompted largely by Mr Sarkozy's fierce opposition to Turkish membership of the EU. Expanding the club to take in a large, poor and Muslim country would dilute French influence.
Like Tesla, Fisker aimed to dilute the premium price of electric vehicles into the costs of a high class luxury vehicle.
It exists to stop shareholders enjoying their full ownership rights by threatening, if triggered, to dilute the value of those shares in certain circumstances specified by a firm's board.
Now governments need to put a lot of money into the pension funds or dilute the promises or, at least for new hires, move away from old-style pensions to the 401(k)-style plans common in the private sector, or all three.
In 2010, Ivanhoe adopted a shareholder-rights plan that allowed other investors to dilute Rio's stake if it continued to grow.
The team used inexpensive, environmentally friendly, easy to access materials- a commercially available polymer that can be easily processed from dilute solutions in solvents like water.
Such a move might make the world better, but it would dilute the mission and unique capabilities of the organization.
Therefore, the best advice for people with bad credit is to dilute the negative information by maximizing the amount of positive information coming into their credit report on a consistent basis.
"The biggest danger is that if you're generating trial for a brand and people are actually going to a restaurant or a spa or buying a product, and it doesn't fulfil a value that's higher than they have paid for it, that could dilute or denigrate the value of the brand, " he says.
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That might dilute the stakes which are held by some of the magnates who control these businesses, but would be a fair price to pay to resuscitate the balance-sheet of a vital industry.
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