China, which has veto power on the Council, insisted on watering down the statement.
"They tried to water down the problem".
We mustn't water down the beer".
Bank lobbyists continue to argue for watering down the law's provisions, and Ms. Waters's public statements suggest she is trying to please both sides.
After days of discord, South East Asian nations have released a watered down joint statement on the disputed South China Sea that avoids rebuking China.
But European officials led a pushback, arguing that if the agreement on common principles was watered down too much, the statement would be meaningless, the G20 robbed of its purpose.
"With Barack Obama and his campaign watering down his statement for an undivided Jerusalem," said Morton A. Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, "one must question whether his initial remark was simply meant to mislead Jewish voters and Israel supporters by not stating his true beliefs on this issue".
Barack Obama's chief of staff, Denis McDonough, has said the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, "dramatically watered down" a bipartisan statement issued before the election.
Over the succeeding decades, judges and further treaties have watered down that unambiguous statement.
He complained that the United States had delayed and watered down the United Nations Security Council statement on Israel, which condemned the actions on the ship rather than Israel itself.
Bernanke's speech was also notable for the lack of hedging statements to water down its tone.
