Nothing's been diluted.

The companies want the bitumen that Nature put in the oily dirt.

Dogs can distinguish two very similar fatty acids, extremely diluted caprylic acid and caproic acid.

It was said also that the status of the permanent five should not be diluted.

The issue of development, far from being diluted, has been the centre of focus and will remain so.

Obama s approval should be conditional on Canada enforcing serious environmental safeguards. Many bitumen companies claim that they already abide by such safeguards but environmentalists skepticism is justified.

Because a daughter can get one X from the father, one X from the mother, it's kind of diluted out.

That arrangement has largely been diluted in recent years through the imposition of unrelated preconditions by the nuclear weapon States.

C. Decision XVII __ Technical and financial implications of the environmentally sound destruction of concentrated and diluted sources of ozone depleting substances

C. Draft decision XVII C Technical and financial implications of the environmentally sound destruction of concentrated and diluted sources of ozone depleting substances

The financial report said that the diluted non GAAP earning per ADS of JD.com in the second quarter is 0.04 US dollar, far above analysts' expectation.

However, its messages were probably diluted by the failure of UNDP to emphasize gender mainstreaming or the promotion of gender equality as priorities in its change management process.

An older technology features vast strip mines, huge diggers, and trucks carting oily dirt to industrial scale pressure cookers that drain off the bitumen. A newer technology leaves the surface untouched by pumping steam into the subsoil.

Mandatory sequestration could make net CO2 emissions from bitumen extraction no worse than those from conventional oil wells, and perhaps even better. Another obvious condition is mandatory timetables for restoring strip mines and tailing ponds to their natural condition.

Bitumen permeates the dirt at the surface or, where thin layers of compost and sediment intervene, somewhat below basement levels. Grasping a handful of dirt from a riverbank does leave one s hand more oily than tarred, and the greasy dirt is somewhat sandy.

Environmentalists make several arguments for leaving the bitumen in the dirt. They disparage hideous strip mines and toxic tailing ponds that even superstar marketers cannot greenwash. 160 The scale is unusual, but open pit mines and tailing ponds are normal mining operations everywhere.

However, after PICC issued A shares, the share holding ratio of the Ministry of Finance will be diluted to 63.58 and that of the National Council for Social Security Fund will be 9.2 .

Lastly, she would appreciate further clarification concerning the status of honour killings as an offence under Turkish law in her view, they should not be diluted in the more general term of custom killings.

They should be given the special treatment they deserve to ensure that their concerns are not diluted through clustering with other groups or through the application of the lowest common denominator to all developing countries.

The representative of Colombia introduced his country's draft decision on technical and financial implications of the environmentally sound destruction of concentrated and diluted sources of ozone depleting substances, and made some corrections to the text.

That's what Europe is doing, so we could have diluted out our supply of flu and made more available, but, going back to what Michael Specter said, the anti vaccine crowd didn't really want that to happen.

According to the data aggregated by Yahoo Finance, the previous average expectation of 15 analysts in the Wall Street is that the diluted non GAAP earning per ADS (American Depositary Share) of JD.com in the second quarter is 0.03 US dollar.

The EU would become unacceptably diluted. That is why former French President Valéry Giscard d Estaing feared that Turkey s entry would lead to the EU s breakup, and it is why former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said, Accession of Turkey would be more than the EU could bear.

For several months now, the preparation for the summit has been almost hijacked by the debate surrounding the enlargement of the Security Council, which has seriously diluted the attention and input given to such other major issues as development, security, human rights and the reform of the Secretariat.

The proposal also called for the adoption by the Parties of the definition of recovery and destruction efficiency proposed by the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel with regard to diluted sources, in particular foams, and indicated that that parameter should be applied in the case study referred to above.

Consistent with what was stated on that occasion, and with a view to the next review conference, my delegation wishes to reiterate its concern that the agreements reached thus far continue to be diluted and that instruments are being adopted on the basis of the lowest common denominator.

As Haldane notes, even the celebrated Volcker rule, intended to build a better wall between more mundane commercial banking and riskier proprietary bank trading, has been hugely watered down as it grinds through the legislative process. The former Federal Reserve chairman s simple idea has been co opted and diluted through hundreds of pages of legalese.

During the course of the Open ended Working Group discussions on that issue, the Parties took note of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel findings and suggestions, but then moved on to consider a proposal by Colombia on the technical and financial implications of the environmentally sound destruction of concentrated and diluted sources of ozone depleting substances.

That the Parties should adopt, with regard to diluted sources, in particular, foams, the Recovery and Destruction Efficiency (RDE) parameter proposed by the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel in the report submitted to the Open ended Working Group at its twenty fifth meeting, a parameter which should be applied in developing the proposed study referred to above.

That the Parties should adopt, with regard to diluted sources, in particular foams, the recovery and destruction efficiency (RDE) parameter proposed by the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel in the report submitted to the Open ended Working Group at its twenty fifth meeting, a parameter which should be applied in developing the proposed study referred to above

Since the Cold War s end, it has fractured into a far more heterodox grouping whose members range from leftist regimes, as in Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela, to the conservative monarchies (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar) of the Persian Gulf. So it should be no surprise that ideological cacophony has severely diluted the group s founding impulse of avoiding entanglement in the disputes of the world s superpowers.

That world, however, will be one in which Israel can no longer count on feelings of Holocaust guilt to influence major powers. It is a world in which monotheistic rivalries will be diluted in an ocean of polytheist faiths, and in which Israel will be able to depend only on its comparative merits in the eyes of cynical, realistic actors who will judge it solely on the basis of their own national interests.