John Bacon and Ken Willard, both of whom supported standards that
water down evolution and favor "intelligent design," won their primaries.
Dump a bucket of
water down the drain to refill the trap.
Everyday, Americans flush 6.8 billion gallons of
water down their toilets.
Rather than
water down our beliefs--the approach of the last 30-odd years--why not stand up, rejoice and sing the praises of Jesus loudly and clearly?
Historic Old Pulteney distillery in Wick pours millions of litres of hot
water down the drain each year.
Pour indicates a flow, either literally ('He poured the
water down the drain') or figuratively ('The rioters poured through the streets')" (Bryson).
Nevertheless, believing that it would be wrong to
water down their Christian message and that their God-given, constitutionally protected rights supersede school district policy, the Bible Club students went ahead with the project.
Meaning of course, it is more virtuous to
water down our kids' faith than to defend it and perhaps in so doing, offend someone w ho disagrees with it.
13) Nothing in the procurement process requires the contracting officer to
water down the specs to increase competition.
"We felt that by having a specialty in terms of product, in order to create growth, we had to diversify geographically, and we didn't want to
water down our specialization," Knudsen says.