The word "neuter" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb meaning to "remove the reproductive organs of an animal" or as an adjective meaning "neither male nor female." For example: "The veterinarian neuter the cat so that it could not reproduce."
Corporate media's solution isn't to totally dismantle public broadcasters – there's no public appetite for that – but to neuter, privatise, weaken, dismiss and delegitimise them.
They need to do it once, properly, and identify sites with either pure or near-pure wildcats, then apply a methodology such as the one used on Wildcat Haven; neuter away feral cats in spaces which can be isolated whether as a peninsula, or enclosed by large lochs or mountain ranges.
The red-and-whites' hope, for example, to neuter the anti-corruption commission, the KPK, will be impossible to realise so long as Jokowi stands firm.
Bureaucrats worked with powerful party bosses and industrial lobbies to set the agenda, flesh out policy and neuter any reform that threatened their narrow interests.
Like many a president, Mr Obama took office vowing to transcend Washington's tribal politics and neuter the power of special interests.
Instead of defending the freedoms perilously acquired after the end of communism, many of Russia's intellectuals have connived in Vladimir Putin's project to neuter democracy and put a puppet-show in its place.
Mr Obama's own initial proposal for avoiding the fiscal cliff last week included a provision that would permanently neuter the debt ceiling by allowing the president to raise it on his own, and requiring a two-thirds vote of Congress to override it, which would never happen.Republicans in the House have been ginning up their own outrage on the issue.
Mr Pitt understands the issues well, perhaps too well: as a prominent securities lawyer, he worked with the trade body representing America's accountants, and in 2000 helped them neuter Mr Levitt's proposed reforms.
So it looks as if the government has moved to neuter the press before a big fish is caught.
The current chairman of the SEC, Harvey Pitt, understands the issues well, perhaps too well: as a prominent securities lawyer, he worked with the trade body representing America's accountants, and in 2000 helped them neuter Mr Levitt's proposed reforms.
Its first objective appears to be to neuter Pheu Thai, a populist party hated by the establishment, but which has won every election since 2001 under various guises.
