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Do we really want leaders who sanitize their every word?

But I'm not sure when my credit history will be sanitized for good.

The office where she'd spent so much of her time was completely sanitized.

So the middle stretch was where he would have sanitized.

Ideas are sanitized as they move toward the center and the mass market.

"We are not trying to sanitize the past in any sense," he said.

And when is the last time you sanitized your keyboard?

At the time, the aim was to sanitize the district.

"Trying to sanitize every film so you can take a 12-year-old to it - why does that have to be?"

B is also found in lakes if the water has not been sanitized.

But irony - and life - have been sanitized here.

She looks beautiful, no doubt, but extremely sanitized for the role.

His valet would come by in the morning to have them sanitized.

The files might have been "sanitized" before he took office last April.

Cover for this run would be provided by an A-10, which had just finished sanitizing the area.

I don't think they should do that because there's nothing to sanitize.

In short, the content would be highly constructed and sanitized.

Police hope to have "sanitized" a dozen buildings by the end of the year.

Indeed, the cabin had been sanitized for a new passenger.

"Things are so sanitized by the Mayor's office it got to be a joke."

She could never go back, sanitize the emotions that were sure to be raised by the truth.

The game sanitizes many aspects of the modern prep school experience.

For the television show, she and the producers decided to sanitize the setting.

He said the ship had been "absolutely sanitized" while in port.

"What do you do with a group of people who need to be sanitized?"

Also, a 24-hour access control system was placed, with sniffer dogs used to sanitise the area.

Drug policy must free addicts from dependence, not sanitise dependence.

It is a cynical attempt to sanitise his legacy."

We should never forget her destructive policies or sanitise her corrosive legacy.

Not all supporters were convinced - a number left, complaining that the campaign was helping to sanitise morally unconscionable activities.

Nor does it sanitise the violence.

But it attracted anti-war campaigners who say the book is trying to sanitise the real cost of the war; thousands of lives lost.

The guard applications were designed to sanitise data being exported from a classified system to remove any sensitive information from it.

That is truly shocking - it's actually encouraging unethical businesses to use literary prizes to sanitise their reputations.

It's not sufficient just to sanitise media; the sanitisation should also be auditable, and records must be kept.

I don't have the time to sanitise the information that I get in so I would just pass it on to the relevant department."

In order to sanitise a water cooler, the watertrail is simply replaced completely which ensures a continually high standard of hygiene.

In an effort to sanitise the Nigerian city of Lagos, the state government is returning all beggars on the streets to their states of origin.

We should avoid causing unnecessary offence whilst also ensuring we continue to convey the reality of events and do not unduly sanitise our reporting.

Manufacturers, it is argued, sought refuge in West Ham from East London vestries determined to sanitise their parishes.

Bawdy jokes and visual comedy demand a big reaction, and if you sanitise that you can end up with something a bit flat and unconvincing.

'You are an apprentice historian and therefore should know that it is only in this century that this attempt to sanitise death has stricken our race.

Street lights attract swarms of insects and a neighbouring hospital wanted to "sanitise" a water basin that provided a friendly habitat for "good" bugs and plants.

The arriving sailing ships would be fumigated and scrubbed down with cabolic to sanitise them before they ventured on to Brisbane with the new arrivals.

Pope's rival Lewis Theobald retained it in his edition, Shakespeare Restored (1726), which pointedly rejected attempts to modernise and sanitise the original works.

The COBRA forces moved ahead of the forces at night to sanitise the area of the operation, armed with Sniper guns and night vision telescopes.

The EU-funded plan called "József Attila terv" to sanitise and redevelop the area without destroying its social fabric is to go operational in the near future.

He sought to sanitise the radical tradition by presenting progressive evolution as an unfolding of divinely planned laws of creation as development up to and including the appearance of human species.

Of course we have to act with caution, but these measures are necessary to sanitise public finance in the long term and are also a sign of solidarity between countries in the eurozone.

Written records indicate that spotted hyenas have been present in the walled Ethiopian city of Harar for at least 500 years, where they sanitise the city by feeding on its organic refuse.