Now they are charging that a new measure, signed into law last month by Gov. George E. Pataki, could dilute the force further by sending some officers into New York City -- previously outside its jurisdiction.
Once in the field, Howe, rather than focusing on the redoubt, opted (twice) to dilute the force attacking the redoubt with a flanking maneuver against the colonial left.
The show's rhythms, and yes, its lighting, felt uneasily off-kilter now and then, diluting the force of black-out images and briskly hurled epigrams.
Every province except Quebec now runs a provincial program, each with different criteria, diluting the force of the federal point system.
Using average and TWAs to represent force or weight dilutes the effect of intermittent, hazardous exertions.
President Karzai was forced to dilute the controversial law following an international outcry over the legislation.
It was uncomfortable, but some way short of lethal.What should trouble the prime minister more than the parliamentary arithmetic is the extent to which he was forced to dilute the proposals made last October.
Anyone attempting to identify divisions within the Iranian security forces that may dilute the government's ability to stop the protests has thus far searched in vain, according to Iranian analysts and American government officials.
The royalists and the other two factions, exiles more dependent on Iran and Pakistan, all see an important symbolic, unifying role for the king and want an international security force in Kabul to dilute the Northern Alliance's political and strategic control over the capital.
Operational data from the 40 m3 Laboratory Biosphere is used to illustrate how normal variations of temperature, humidity and barometric pressure would combine to force leakage and rapidly dilute the internal atmosphere if it were not equipped with a lung.
A simultaneous Arab attack could dilute the effectiveness of the Israeli Air Force (IAF), and would force Israeli ground forces to fight a two-front war.
