The EU would become unacceptably diluted.

Awkwardly for oil companies, bitumen is not ordinary oil.

They remove bitumen from the dirt in two ways.

Moreover, the newer bitumen technology does without strip mines.

Awkwardly for environmentalists, Nature put corrosive bitumen in the dirt.

Environmentalists make several arguments for leaving the bitumen in the dirt.

Diluted, tritiated water is mainly H2O plus some HTO (3HOH).

The companies want the bitumen that Nature put in the oily dirt.

This heats the bitumen, making it runny enough to be pumped out.

The companies want the bitumen that Nature put in the oily dirt.

Laying kilometer upon kilometer of bitumen is the favored solution for many politicians.

Even the new Basel 3 banking standards have been diluted and postponed.

US President Barack Obama has a limited opportunity to preserve the bitumen companies integrity.

The tar sands are hundreds of square kilometers of bitumen, a viscous and corrosive tarlike deposit.

Many bitumen companies claim that they already abide by such safeguards but environmentalists skepticism is justified.

It was said also that the status of the permanent five should not be diluted.

Fidel Castro knows this, and will take advantage of the democracies diluted commitment to human rights and democracy.

The issue of development, far from being diluted, has been the centre of focus and will remain so.

Bitumen permeates the dirt at the surface or, where thin layers of compost and sediment intervene, somewhat below basement levels.

The former Federal Reserve chairman s simple idea has been co opted and diluted through hundreds of pages of legalese.

That arrangement has largely been diluted in recent years through the imposition of unrelated preconditions by the nuclear weapon States.

Mandatory sequestration could make net CO2 emissions from bitumen extraction no worse than those from conventional oil wells, and perhaps even better.

None of these misguided or cynical efforts has diluted Gandhi s greatness, or the extraordinary resonance of his life and his message.

C. Decision XVII __ Technical and financial implications of the environmentally sound destruction of concentrated and diluted sources of ozone depleting substances

An older technology features vast strip mines, huge diggers, and trucks carting oily dirt to industrial scale pressure cookers that drain off the bitumen.

C. Draft decision XVII C Technical and financial implications of the environmentally sound destruction of concentrated and diluted sources of ozone depleting substances

Bush said no, since the tariff is congressionally mandated, and thus greatly diluted the importance of the bio fuel cooperation agreement the two governments signed.

The cap is in place as some fear the army's British character is being diluted, and employing too many could make the army seen as employing mercenaries.

However, its messages were probably diluted by the failure of UNDP to emphasize gender mainstreaming or the promotion of gender equality as priorities in its change management process.

Had BP spilled hundreds of billions of barrels of bitumen across hundreds of square kilometers, environmentalists would rightly demand that no expense be spared to rid the dirt of every trace of oil.

The value of China s assets as future claims on real resources has already been diluted by dollar depreciation, and calls in the US for inflating away America s debt burden portend a further decline.

Lastly, she would appreciate further clarification concerning the status of honour killings as an offence under Turkish law in her view, they should not be diluted in the more general term of custom killings.

They should be given the special treatment they deserve to ensure that their concerns are not diluted through clustering with other groups or through the application of the lowest common denominator to all developing countries.

The representative of Colombia introduced his country's draft decision on technical and financial implications of the environmentally sound destruction of concentrated and diluted sources of ozone depleting substances, and made some corrections to the text.

That's what Europe is doing, so we could have diluted out our supply of flu and made more available, but, going back to what Michael Specter said, the anti vaccine crowd didn't really want that to happen.

Besides the largest conventional oil reserves and the second largest natural gas reserves in the Western Hemisphere, Venezuela has non conventional oil deposits (extra heavy crude oil, bitumen and tar sands) approximately equal to the world's reserves of conventional oil.

(b) if it is unlikely that these effects will occur at the concentrations present. For example, when a mild irritant is diluted in a non irritating solution, there comes a point where the overall mixture would be unlikely to cause irritation

Since the isotopes will be diluted in body water, there is no need to administer them in a state of high isotopic purity, no need to employ water in which all or even most atoms are heavy atoms, or even to begin with water which is doubly labeled.

For several months now, the preparation for the summit has been almost hijacked by the debate surrounding the enlargement of the Security Council, which has seriously diluted the attention and input given to such other major issues as development, security, human rights and the reform of the Secretariat.

The proposal also called for the adoption by the Parties of the definition of recovery and destruction efficiency proposed by the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel with regard to diluted sources, in particular foams, and indicated that that parameter should be applied in the case study referred to above.

Consistent with what was stated on that occasion, and with a view to the next review conference, my delegation wishes to reiterate its concern that the agreements reached thus far continue to be diluted and that instruments are being adopted on the basis of the lowest common denominator.

It is a world in which monotheistic rivalries will be diluted in an ocean of polytheist faiths, and in which Israel will be able to depend only on its comparative merits in the eyes of cynical, realistic actors who will judge it solely on the basis of their own national interests.