Some blame their Lib Dem coalition partners for watering down rules on hiring and firing.
At the time, some criticized the move for watering down Google search results.
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The various accounting bodies are trying to placate the politicians while avoiding watering down standards too much.
His blog, terrytao.wordpress.com, is well written and spends little time watering down concepts for the public.
We have -- we're not walking away from and we're not watering down that proposal one bit.
He specifically attacked what he saw as the watering down of the proposed powers of a community-controlled policing board.
Look for the watering down of No Child Left Behind testing standards, as a favor to the National Education Association.
Even as they complained about the deficit, they were watering down the government's plans to cut wasteful and costly subsidies to homeowners.
The Germans and Scandinavians, notably punctilious in legal matters, are expected to hold out against any watering down of the court's statute.
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But there are troubling signs that the review is the first step toward watering down or doing away with crucial parts of the survey.
The tort bar's ship would also come in, including limits on arbitration to settle disputes and watering down the 1995 law limiting strike suits.
As we've noted before, the banking industry was successful in watering down several provisions of the legislation, and it's not yet done lobbying.
Anheuser-Busch is seeking to defend its reputation against claims that it is watering down Budweiser and nine other famous American beer brands it owns.
These included giving health professionals other than GPs more power over how NHS funds are spent as well as watering down the role of competition.
It technically meets - or so ministers hope - the ECHR's deadline by publishing legislation that potentially could end up watering down the blanket ban.
These included giving health professionals other than GPs more power over how NHS funds were spent, as well as watering down the role of competition.
He managed to look as if he fully supported their demands for an indigenous-rights bill, and let Congress take the blame for watering down the bill.
One question is how high Twitter can push its numbers without watering down its commitment to selling only ad units that feel native to its ecosystem.
But she warned that there may be some watering down of the policy, with moves to give individuals rights within cohabitation, rather than full partnership rights.
Everyone is always hankering for new features, but the core concept is so solid that any tinkering has a way of watering down the original experience.
At first his new government had appeared to be watering down the proposals of Peter Hartz, a Volkswagen manager, to make the labour market more efficient.
The EC plan has been criticized by consumer groups as a watering down of passenger protections and by airlines as an unnecessary burden in compensation and rerouting.
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But he said Labour "will not accept any watering down of its powers" and would "guarantee that the most vulnerable workers in our society are not abandoned".
Hajaz Akram, principal of the Academy of Asian and Ethnic Dramatic Arts (AAEDA) in London, is concerned that Neighbours is watering down what it means to be Asian.
Shadow welfare reform minister James Clappison said he welcomed any proposals that encouraged people back to work but said the government "seems to be watering down its proposed reform".
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Anand Grover, a lawyer for the Cancer Patients Aid Association, which led the legal fight against Novartis, said the ruling Monday prevented the watering down of India's patent laws.
During resumed debate on the Academies Bill at committee stage on 22 July 2010, Mr Coaker said he feared any watering down of playing field regulations could be "very damaging" to pupils' education.
That rival, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, stood alone before television cameras near the steps hours later to criticize Ms. Quinn for watering down the bill and excluding many New Yorkers from its benefits.
All of which explains what some would see as the most significant watering down by the chancellor of the recommendations to reform banks that George Osborne received last year from the Independent Commission on Banking, chaired by Sir John Vickers.
The abrupt postponement of the reform package left Mr Koizumi's government scrambling to limit the damage and the prime minister insisting to an increasingly sceptical audience that there would be no watering down of the central elements of Mr Takenaka's proposals.
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