Assembly Halls are scattered all over Georgetown and Penang (and Malaysia in general), but "Assembly Hall" is a somewhat sterile term that does not cut to the heart of how cool these buildings are.
This term and the following terms 'chimera' and 'fusion' are mutually used, irrespective to the somehow different biological statuses they present (for example, 'conjoined' is a very sterile term indicating being, coming, or brought together so as to meet, touch, overlap, or unit).
True, there are some ideologically driven politicians who see each iteration in exactly the same sterile terms.
You could call this intellectual free association, but it is far too sterile a term for the mind of Michel de Montaigne running after itself, arguing against argument, reading his thoughts and his aging body at least as carefully as he reads his books.
These sterile corporate terms — downsizing, right-sizing, outsourcing, offshoring, furloughing — really mean two workforces will experience more trauma and jockeying for position on blended seniority lists.
The EEA warned that as a result of intensive practices, with the aggressive use of pesticides and other chemicals, the loss of hedgerows, field margins and other semi-wild areas, as well as the monocultures prevailing in many areas and the rapid turnover of land, many large areas of farmed land are becoming "sterile" in terms of biodiversity.
When some talk about maternal illness and death, they tend to talk in sterile, medical terms, and focus on statistics and numbers.
To obtain information on support, we provided a short statement about the release, modeled after earlier community outreach efforts and that used the term "sterile mosquito" instead of "genetically modified mosquito".
In the dermatologic literature, the term "sterile abscess" is broadly used to describe a nodular lesion that has formed as a result of foreign bodies and/or injected medications that have not been totally absorbed.
The survey we used included "sterile" because this term had been used in community awareness activities and should have been familiar to those who had heard of the proposed release, and we added "genetically modified" as a descriptor of the mosquitoes.
The word "brand" is everywhere, to the point where Disney chairman Michael Eisner calls the term "overused, sterile and unimaginative".
