The equipment must be sterilized in a certified autoclave before and after every use.

Instruments that are used in health care facilities are usually sterilized with this method.

All of its asset purchases will be sterilized, meaning that their monetary policy effects will be offset.

The women were sterilized or forced into having abortions in order to stabilize the population increase in the region.

With the PBOC unable to sterilize the inflows, upward pressure on the renminbi s exchange rate would threaten competitiveness.

It is not often used today, but is used for sterilizing some things that cannot withstand pressurized heating, such as plant seeds.

Instead, the PBC s policy is preemptive sterilize over liquidity and get the money supply under control in order to prevent inflation or over heating.

Emerging market countries are turning to an array of techniques to discourage capital inflows or sterilize their effect on the exchange rate.

The end of intervention in currency markets would allow the PBOC to shrug off the burden of sterilization and concentrate on fighting inflation.

In addition, if donor flows have to be sterilized in order to meet monetary policy targets, this may create additional debt servicing costs.

China s state run Xinhua news agency recently reported on a government investigation into a string of forced sterilizations and abortions in the village of Linyi, Shandong province.

In China, unlike in advanced countries, monetary and sterilization policy are often one in the same. The degree to which monetary policy is expansionary depends on the degree to which the liquidity created by currency market intervention has been sterilized.

And, if the exit occurs via a rise in the interest rate on excess reserves (to sterilize the effect of a base money overhang on credit growth), the ensuing losses for central banks balance sheets could be significant.

There have also been cases of refusal by parents to vaccinate their children, typically at the behest of clergy members, owing to the belief that such public health efforts are in fact a covert sterilization program.

If China, emerging markets, and other surplus countries prevent nominal currency appreciation via intervention and prevent real appreciation via sterilization of such intervention the only way deficit countries can achieve real depreciation is via deflation.