For the north's economic problems do not stem from a lack of tech-startups or an inability to cross the Pennines at lightning-quick speed; they are borne of successive crises of capitalism, each of which leaving behind their own uncompromising legacy.
The growth of nationalism in the UK is unwelcome and destructive; properly endorsing our membership of the EU would do much to stem the tide of disaffection.
The deaths of around 1,800 people in the Mediterranean so far this year has also led to increasing discussion of how best to stem the flow of migrants from North Africa.
Outlining his story in a matter-of-fact manner, the controlling killer told the operator: "I grabbed the knife and stabbed him in the back of the neck, I believe somewhere near the brain stem.
But a huge national and international response helped stem the spread.
This week, Nigerien legislators adopted a law calling for prison sentences of up to 30 years for smugglers of illegal immigrants in an attempt to stem the flow of migrants leaving Africa for Europe.
They would have preferred to donate the embryos to science, but at the time, embryonic stem cell research was banned, so that choice was off the table.
Emily Dickinson's winter is charged with wildness – the snow buries the "stump and stack and stem" and creates "Acres of seams where harvests were".
Catholic schools that participate are being asked not to donate to the ALS Association because it has a study under way using embryonic stem cell research, which is thought to violate teaching on abortion.
It's now seven years since Hütter and his team at the Charité hospital in Berlin performed a groundbreaking stem cell transplant on a 40 year old HIV-positive patient, suffering from leukaemia.
But the report also uncovered many discrepancies that did not stem from these circumstances.
