After a campaign lamented for its sterility, vacuum-packing the leading candidates in airless rooms a safe distance from the voting public, the BBC Question Time special forced the men who would be prime minister to face the electorate at last.
We displace a word that conjures images of suffering for one with statistician-like sterility.
All Tunisians knew that the fall of Ben Ali was not only because of the ideological sterility of his government, but also because his large-scale pillaging of the country in collusion with the Trabelsis was about to be exposed.
She remains an image of sterility, just as she would become to the dissident poets and frustrated young men who peppered her court in the dying days of her reign, the Earl of Essex most prominent among them (the famous scene in which he did, indeed, discover she wore a wig occurred in 1599, over a decade after the Armada).
Take Saint Vitus, with his cauldron and rooster, whose extensive remit apparently includes patronage of youth, smiths, pharmacists, brewers, vintners, innkeepers, actors, the deaf and helper for those suffering fits, illness of the eyes and sterility.
We'll think of something Petersburg magic and Rio gangs Girl crazy ReprintsScientific experimentation in these times was a risky business, full of sudden bangs, sour smells and unexpected textures, and the author is marvellously good at capturing this sensuous world, far removed from white coat sterility.
The advantages of avoiding sterility or death from illnesses such as herpes and simian immuno-deficiency virus, the monkey version of the AIDS virus, outweigh the cost to the body of maintaining such a large immune system.
The complete whiteness of the apartment where the heroine Marie Caroline Duceyy) lives with her boorish and bed-shy partner conveys an atmosphere of sexual and emotional sterility.
The city's edginess beats the sterility of the Gulf creations any time, advertising executives and fashion designers say.
This generated more water vapour in its atmosphere, further increasing the temperature in a runaway greenhouse effect.In this section The germ of an idea Riding piggyback Barren land A bird's eye view Reprints Related items Planetary science: Worlds apartNov 10th 2005Planetary scientists have also long blamed Venus's sterility on the lack of an internal magnetic field.
There were no apparent after-effects from this exposure just a lot of doubtful jokes among ourselves about death versus sterility," Mr Carter wrote.
