Sentence examples for diluted among from inspiring English sources

Also, while the benefit of a slave would be diluted among a pirate crew, the potential cost would not be: an embittered slave who betrayed a pirate ship could cost every pirate his whole neck.

David Sassoon's fortune was diluted among his many descendants, and S.D.'s children and grandchildren lost out further by their mother's decision to encourage her sons to avoid the family business and become aristocratic Englishmen.

With oversight of trade diluted among two or three cabinet and non-cabinet posts in Washington, the European Union's trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy, could become the trade world's new leader.

People who have changed their registration from places like New York City (where the power of their vote is diluted among hundreds of thousands) report pleasant culture shock at receiving personal visits from politicians in their weekend communities, where some elections can turn on one or two votes.

With oversight of trade diluted among a triumvirate in Washington, the European Union's trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy, could become the trade world's new de facto leader.Under Ms Barshefsky, by contrast, there was never any doubt as to who was the face of American trade policy in international discussions.

The lowest diversity was found for the Patagonian Shelf (4.7 species per 100 km of coast), which could seem contradictory to the previous statement by John et al. [421], but this could be because the relatively small hot spots of macroalgal diversity found in the scarse rocky shores of the Patagonian Shelf are being "diluted" among hundreds of kilometers of sandy coasts with no macroalgae.

Many died and some lost their fortunes in divorces or diluted them among heirs, but most were simply elbowed aside by up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

He is crisscrossing the land, supporting center-right candidates before Sunday's runoff in a frantic effort to ensure that the first-round triumph is not diluted by complacency among the faithful.

Hopes that Rio would commit the world to move towards a green economy were diluted by suspicions among some developing nations that this was another way for wealthy nations to impose a "one-model-fits-all" approach.

Those with migraine lost 6.3% of workdays, which diluted to 1.4% among this population, somewhat greater than the estimated underlying disability.

He suggests such expertise might have been reinforced by natural selection during chimpanzee evolution, while time diluted the skill among humans as they acquired more abstract cognition involved in language - a feature that also made humans more cooperative.