Who would be surprised if this measure was heavily watered down, or completely evaporated, by 2018?
A substantial proportion of participants reported that their high school science teachers had avoided, "watered down," or completely omitted evolution, and fully one-third of the interviewees described their high school biology teachers as "creationist".
"A lot of times the representations that you see are watered down, or completely skewed versions of the truth.
But after at least a half-dozen drafts, some of the most significant proposals have been watered down, or dropped completely, after opposition from state-owned firms, researchers involved in the project say.
"Creationists", as the paleontologist Niles Eldredge observes (Eldredge 2005), "have tried repeatedly for well over a hundred years to have evolution either watered down, or preferably completely removed, from the curriculum of America's public schools.
"By the time this report came out it was four years out of date, had been completely watered down and 7,000 more Africans had been diagnosed with HIV in the UK," its authors told us.
"I think the mining tax got completely watered down because it was a part of the reason that the prime minister who introduced it lost his job," Mr. Bloxham said Tuesday.
The Affordable Care Act, for example, while great in many ways, was completely watered down through Democratic attempts to include Republicans in its formation.
No, not just because health care reform is being so watered down in Congress that it now completely fails to address the underlying dire (and spiraling) problems of the health care system.
Calling it a "watered down" bill, Carter added, "I'm not completely satisfied with the legislation.
