Sterilised

This has been dubbed "sterilised" QE or "Operation Twist", after a 1960s programme in which the Treasury and the Fed tried to "twist" the yield curve by altering the pattern of Treasury-bond issuance. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The ECB insists that its bond purchases are "sterilised" - meaning that they do not add stimulus or constitute quantitative easing - but this is a disputed point. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was also suggested that not all the bond purchases would be sterilised, which is not what markets had been led to believe. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the central bank does also pledge that this programme will be "sterilised", with any new liquidity created ultimately being sucked out of the system. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The report says many hospitals lack essentials, such as sterilised needles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Many mine areas became permanently "sterilised" and the groundwater contaminated, he said. ❋ Unknown (2007)

OKH had ordered that a strip fifteen miles wide along the east bank of the Dnieper was to be made a "waste zone" and completely "sterilised" of buildings, water, utilities, and of course, people. ❋ Clark, Alan (1965)

The ECB report also maintained that its purchases would be "sterilised" by other operations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The needles used to inject sick prisoners are disposable but because of shortages, they are "sterilised" over and over again, leaving them twisted, blunt and lethal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"sterilised," that is to say, it should be made so hot that the germs are killed before it is drunk. ❋ Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell Of Gilwell (1899)

The entire family of oxygen and DNA wasters should be sterilised to prevent them from breeding – the cycle has to be broken. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

You know they are especially sterilised by leaving them outside in the rain/traffic pollution/canal … … .. on September 3, 2009 at 8: 56 pm Metcountymounty ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

"Some are absolutely brilliant," he says as he unwraps the disposable sterilised clamps and scissors, "but there are others who get very emotional and start crying – we have a special fainting chair for them." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Using sterilised forceps, Amin opens up the foreskin, cleaning under the skin. ❋ Unknown (2011)