A significant dilution of the austerity he promised just four months ago and a very effective way of moving the Conservative offer slightly closer to Labour's.
It could do more address the dilution of the external examiner system, the national variation in degree classification algorithms and the relationship between the management of resources and quality.
It was an opportunity I couldn't miss' When I was a child, Welsh nationalism came with scare stories about extremists setting fire to English people's homes, or Plaid Cymru MPs denouncing the dilution of Welsh culture by "English immigrants".
If Crown is correct and parliament backs the reform it will mark the further dilution of the Catholic church's temporal power in the republic.
The act of writing a version becomes necessarily a dilution.
In effect Irish voters will be faced with an economic/fiscal Hobson's choice: vote yes even if means a further dilution of sovereignty; vote no and you will probably end up junking your euro notes and coins for a currency pegged to sterling.
Critics argue that the cosmopolitan make-up of the company threatens a dilution of the British "style".
State governments that do try to meet their obligations have been forced to do so by using other funds; at least five states have written increasingly desperate letters to central government demanding the release of funds, and three state assemblies have passed resolutions opposing dilution of the act and demanding an increase in funding.
Despite the prospect of dilution, shareholders reacted positively in after-hours trading.
As often as not, government merely legitimised the dilution of class barriers that happened rapidly after 1960.It is tempting to argue, as a result, that the British obsession with class no longer reflects reality.
Other shareholders, miffed at the lack of pre-bid consultation and at the prospect of the dilution of their stakes, added their voices to Mr Hohn's, forcing Deutsche Börse to withdraw its bid.
