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More people were sterilized in 1948 than any other year.

He even knew whether she herself had been sterilized or not.

And after having one child, people expect to be sterilized for good.

They have been sterilized, which is illegal for other women.

Nine were sterilized last fall and 21 more will be this year.

He would threaten to have both the father and the mother sterilized.

However, the program focused more on sterilizing women than men.

"Then you have to sterilize the bed and start all over," she said.

The second option was to go into the building and sterilize the whole place.

In 1980, around 1700 patients were sterilized without their consent.

Many more women than men were sterilized: 4,043 to 2,640.

When in doubt, ask to see how the equipment is sterilized.

From about 1934 to 1975, Sweden sterilized more than 62,000 people.

What if you need to sterilize water on the go and you're traveling light?

In 10 percent or more of these cases, he said, women regret the decision to be sterilized.

They can also help to sterilize any cuts in the skin.

Needles sold on the street are not always new or sterilized.

Some twenty thousand men and women were sterilized in California.

"Tell her that being sterilized is not the end of the world.

So, why have efforts to sterilize addicts come under such fire?

"Increasingly, it is younger women who want to be sterilized after their second child."

Among the plaintiffs was a woman who agreed to be sterilized to keep her job.

But I meant to let him have his way, convince himself that he had sterilized my house.

Giles should have sterilized his one good hand, so he could help her.

In the age of Homer, wine was used to sterilise wounds.

It's important to keep all feeding equipment clean - you must sterilise between uses for the first six months.

You can also use gamma rays to sterilise (clean) hospital material.

"It is a pretty drastic step to sterilise someone against their will simply because they lack the mental capacity themselves," he said.

To offset the effect on the money supply, the central bank may sterilise its foreign exchange intervention.

Curtis told police, that he sometimes pressure-cooked this mixture to sterilise it.

More powerful gamma sources sterilise syringes and other medical equipment.

It is particularly noteworthy that each accession of new blood seems to sterilise its predecessors.

Joanna spoke softly, with one eye on Helen, who had gone to sterilise the instruments.

You could sterilise 90% of men and theoretically not make a dent in the birth rate.

If the brine regenerator uses high heat, they also partially sterilise the air.

A common cause, according to recent research, is the chlorine solution sometimes used to bleach and sterilise corks.

It also means they don't need to sterilise the soil and there is better air circulation around the crop, meaning less disease.

I've already boiled the jar for a little over a minute to sterilise it, and it's been cooling on the draining board.

Nevertheless, there remain to this day schemes to sterilise the less well-off, often in return for financial incentives.

Foe example, we also sterilise animals to prevent over-population.

Their mission is to help Blofeld contaminate and ultimately sterilise the world's food supply.

"This will sterilise and numb the area instantly."

I want to sterilise me things.

Previous research has also shown that cold plasmas are effective at killing bacteria and can be used to sterilise water for up to seven days.

Sterilise the jars by putting them into the dishwasher on the hottest cycle to wash and dry.

If you can't sterilise it freeze it, is her axiom.

(The officers use a special charcoal burner to sterilise the instruments.)

Meanwhile sterilise enough jars in the oven and have the lids washed and ready.

To sterilise the jars, wash in very hot water or on the hot cycle of a dishwasher.