Sentence examples for germ from inspiring English sources

"The germ of an idea was a slave who becomes a bounty hunter and goes after the white men [who tortured him], before the civil war," Tarantino said.

"Most of my friends died from Aids-related illnesses," says Pfahler. "It was like a horror movie, watching people with angina, their bodies blowing up, people wearing germ jumpsuits… You can't ever erase these intense images from your eyes.

By building a family tree of the germ, the team dated the bacterial ancestor to the late Roman period.

The germ of an escape plan formed.

Tonnes of weapon-ready chemicals and thousands of gallons of deadly germ agents have been found and destroyed.

These contain the germ of a more rational EU asylum policy.One idea that is not on the agenda is the proposal, made by Germany, among others, of setting up centres to process migrants in North Africa before they take to sea.

"I think we're going to have to break here," says Hegarty sweetly, though I suspect he's relieved to get away from my germ-laden croaking.

Former West Wing star Lowe will play Father Jude, the Vatican's most rebellious priest who finds himself among a band of people who may – or may not – be the future of mankind, including an unhinged white supremacist, a germ-phobic cyber-terrorist, a mild-mannered bank manager and an American five-star general.

See article.Chinese scientists attempted to carry out germ-line gene therapy on human embryos.

Ken Alibek, the former deputy head of the Soviet Union's germ-warfare programme (who defected to America in 1992), says that if a terrorist could pick one biological weapon for use against America, it would probably be smallpox or the plague.

The contestants include a Caribbean-born transvestite who totters across the mud in stilettos and a germ-phobic choreographer who dons rubber gloves while trying to herd sheep.