The Donatists believed that, in those hard times, the first job was to defend Christian law so it wouldn't be diluted by compromise.
I think one of the trickiest things to get right is the balance between protecting the creative vision and integrity of the project and ensuring that it doesn't get diluted or compromised, while also being open to partner input and having the ability to be flexible.
By keeping this conviction, I kept the brand from being compromised or diluted while nourishing the motivation and inspiration of my strong, unifying team who truly believed in the purpose.
Hyman Minsky and other post-Keynesian economists have argued that as result of this, Keynes's ideas were diluted by those keen to compromise with classical economists or to render his concepts with mathematical models like the IS/LM model (which, they argue, distort Keynes's ideas).
(As long as it's called "health reform" and it passes, we win....) Unnecessary compromise dilutes the outcome, especially when one's opponents lack good will.
So the Medicare expansion, even if it's not diluted any further, is a backdown from a compromise proposal that was a itself compromise from the Democrats' 2008 campaign pledges - pledges which were themselves less than what most experts felt needed to be done.
You cannot be bought, compromised, deterred, lured away, turned back, diluted, or delayed.
Both sides have voiced their discontent with the government's compromise, while outside experts suggested so much had been diluted or left open that the package would have little effect on the labor market.
It has also been demonstrated that the ingestion of non-caloric solutions such as pronase diluted in 100 ml of water immediately before endoscopy did not compromise endoscopy safety [ 21].
But governing involves compromise, and the Maidanites are wary of having their movement diluted.
