"The developed countries must avoid a sterile triumphalism or a one-medicine-cures-all prescription, " Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Bangkok last week.
Sterility guidelines, such as draping the patient in a sterile sheet and wearing a mask and gown, are often forgotten.
Debates about how to cut spending tend to get stuck in a sterile argument about whether it is best to dictate a standard reduction across the board and tell departments to get on with it (as happened in Sweden), or to pick on particular areas (as in Canada).
It is a sad and sterile emptiness at the heart of a noble enterprise.
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As examples cited of the questionable sterility practices, the inspection report describes a technician who was wearing a non-sterile gown and extending his arm over a vial tray containing open, exposed vials.
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It can be a sterile way to experience what is often an exciting occasion.
Then I realized that merely studying the lives of others was a sterile counterfeit.
Nato enlargement tend to follow a sterile pattern of warnings, tantrums, sulks and grudging acceptance.
Though the clear water might trick your brain into thinking you're in a sterile pool, you are not.
Del Toro, now forty-six, owns a mock-Tudor mansion in Westlake Village, a sterile suburb northwest of Los Angeles.
When I treated the interview more as a conversation with a purpose than as a sterile interrogation, the tone of the exchange softened.
Gold, on the other hand, is a sterile asset that historically costs money to store and insure, whereas, gold mining stocks are generating positive carry.
"Forget all you hear about a sterile, draconian city, " he says.
When we do visit a sterile movie set, it is as part of the storyline - to watch local moguls churning out the same old dross.
Dr Biermann and Dr Kusenko think that one in particular of these hypothetical particles known as a sterile neutrino will turn out to be the main constituent of dark matter.
The damaged spacecraft was lifted out of its crater by helicopter and moved to a sterile "clean room" on the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah following the crash.
To illustrate my point, I encourage you to look at the 2006 reimbursement rate data for dactinomycin (brand name: Cosmegen), a sterile injectable used to treat various forms of cancer.
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In this process a piece of tissue is cut from a healthy plant and grown in a sterile environment into several plantlets that root in pasteurized soil before being transferred to the field.
It just feels different than a sterile company-to-customer interaction.
But the bigger problem is finding a way to discuss Russia's problems in a way that does not immediately lead to a sterile argument reminiscent of the ponderous tirades of the 1980s.
But if both it and the explanation for the solar-neutrino deficit were true, there would have to be a fourth sort of neutrino one which its proponents refer to as a sterile neutrino.
Teams also complained to the hospital officials that the checklist required that patients be fully covered with a sterile drape when lines were being put in, but full-size barrier drapes were often unavailable.
Portions of Giffords' skull that were removed are still frozen in a sterile bag, and it could be weeks, if not months, before those portions are surgically returned to her head, doctors said.
Once that is done, the organ (in this case a kidney) and the bone marrow are transplanted and the patient is confined for a fortnight in a sterile environment to protect him from infection while his new, mixed immune system boots up.
"It is true that future fertility techniques may well be able to help a sterile or near-sterile child reproduce but that may be an outcome that parents do not want to risk and they may instead turn to a known-to-be-fertile sperm donor, " he said.
The environment here is so cold and pristine, it's like a giant sterile laboratory.
He said he spotted a few small, as-yet unidentified life forms but found the depths to be a "sterile, almost desert-like place".
The game went into a fairly sterile period but deep into injury time at the end of the half, Blackburn got the goal their early endeavour had deserved.
Despite his avowed confidence on this score, the first minister remains opposed to testing the constitutional question by holding what he calls a "sterile and divisive" border poll.
Assembly Halls are scattered all over Georgetown and Penang (and Malaysia in general), but "Assembly Hall" is a somewhat sterile term that does not cut to the heart of how cool these buildings are.
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