• As every schoolchild should know, water moves from a dilute to a concentrated solution through a semipermeable membrane by a process called osmosis.

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  • The other, more straightforward argument is that to welcome the greatest number of people, yoga has to dilute itself a little.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Both Lee and Kim Jong Pil call the Chungchung region of central South Korea home, a coincidence that could dilute the oppositionist's strength.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • But regulators at the FTC have taken a different view, saying that such payments dilute the purpose of the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984.

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  • 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.

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  • Like Tesla, Fisker aimed to dilute the premium price of electric vehicles into the costs of a high class luxury vehicle.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • In 2010, Ivanhoe adopted a shareholder-rights plan that allowed other investors to dilute Rio's stake if it continued to grow.

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  • 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.

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  • Such a move might make the world better, but it would dilute the mission and unique capabilities of the organization.

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  • 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.

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  • "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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