The Co-op Bank's additional rights issue has also triggered speculation that the Co-op Group's remaining 30% stake could be diluted, because it would struggle to find additional funds to maintain its shareholding.
"Everyone wants to blame others for their own failures," Laughlin says of the Atlanta murders, a provocative attitude that is diluted because it is used to reveal the reporter's boyhood more than it is to enrich his current situation.
"The number is diluted because, on average, console gamers that play online have more than one account per console and some will have used more than one account on the same game.
Although Sundance enjoys a global profile its uniqueness has been diluted because there are now many other film festivals where there's a significant focus on independent cinema.
David Hargis, a former student disc jockey at Princeton's WPRB, says the power of these stations has been diluted because music blogs like Pitchfork and social networking sites, which he calls "word of mouth on steroids," are offering those same opportunities to discover new music.
Relations between SNPs and mammographic density may have been diluted because we analyzed mammograms taken during varying menstrual phases.
Put another way, you're not being diluted because a VC decrees it; you're being diluted because you spent money building features that your customers didn't want, instead of the ones that they need.
However, its impact is diluted because there appears to be no overall strategy for its involvement with individual charities or the sector as a whole.
"Our position is that it would not and should not be diluted because each subsequent investor knew or should have known about Reggie's interest in the company," James Lee tells me.
New Hampshire would be allowed to vote then, but its influence would be diluted because so could 11 other states, as well as Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa.
