The unique nature of traditional Japanese culture, which made it infertile ground for Christianity in the 16th century, was treated in several moving novels by Endō Shūsaku, notably Chimmoku (1966; Silence).
The third draft law was only the initiative of a small group of MPs, and it called for significant constrictions on the practice of in vitro fertilization in Poland, which could make it almost impossible for infertile couples to conceive.
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The area of restoration on the Loess Plateau in China is the size of Belgium and thousands of years of subsistence farming had made it barren and infertile.
These are much less common today because technology has made it possible for many infertile women to become pregnant themselves with eggs from donors, or to have their own eggs transferred to other women who carry the pregnancy.
The current duration approach, another approach not mentioned by Tingen et al. (2004), makes it possible to include infertile couples without resorting to detailed prospective studies.
Present knowledge on the impact of varicoceles on testicular function is largely based on studies of subfertile and infertile men, making it difficult to extrapolate the impact of varicocele on the general population.
More significant is the common desire to believe that something is true despite evidence to the contrary, and to do whatever it takes to persist in that belief, whether ignoring the recalcitrant evidence (as for a time did those who argued that miscegenetic offspring would like mules be infertile) or making it fit one's views through sheer force of will.
Her lawyer said she was worried about the impact on his intelligence, that it could make him infertile and that he would put on weight.
My mother often tells my brother to take his phone out of his pocket in case it makes him infertile.
Roberts, 37, from Brighton, East Sussex, argued that radiotherapy could impair Neon's IQ or make him infertile.
