Verb (used with object), : to sanitize a document before releasing it to the press. From Dictionary.com.
News: Rebellion rises against Australia AVP ban - Will not "sanitise" or "cut" content. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
June Factor, who has spent nearly four decades researching and writing children's books, says such moves to "sanitise" story-telling is very concerning. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
And after all that effort the BNP has made to sanitise itself, too. From Wordnik.com. [Reverting to type] Reference
The SAHRC hearings were necessary to sensitise and sanitise society. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Euan: if you try to sanitise the conversation it will move somewhere else. From Wordnik.com. [2007 April — Climb to the Stars] Reference
North American culture has attempted to sanitise sporting culture for years. From Wordnik.com. [But it's fun!] Reference
It does not break the law and goes to some length to sanitise its public image. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Huckabee I thought came across as desperate to sanitise rather than sell his core values. From Wordnik.com. [And now to Iowa] Reference
The problem is, if you do too much to sanitise it all, it becomes unreal and therefore pointless. From Wordnik.com. [Will The Real Inspector Gadget Please Stand Up! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
You can tell a lot about people from the individuals whom they choose to eulogise, lionise or sanitise. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
This unjust system they'd disguise with half truths and bare-faced lies by which they hope to sanitise. From Wordnik.com. [Protecting workers' rights] Reference
I would probably say O'Neill that most countries (maybe with the exception of Germany) sanitise their history. From Wordnik.com. [A restricted homecoming?] Reference
Once they have the views they sanitise them, only make public a small part of them (not the contentious ones). From Wordnik.com. [Let Me Translate…. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
"I think they're trying very hard to sanitise their relationship with Armscor," Goldring says of the Mandela government. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
For as they are now boasting to each other, they are still working behind the scenes to sanitise the Declaration yet further. From Wordnik.com. [An unconscionable farce] Reference
Trying to sanitise the sheer awfulness of Islamic law by reducing it to whether trousers may be worn or not seems trivial to me. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-04] Reference
Most other media that covered the incident saw it as worthy of an article in its own right - the BBC prefers to smother it, to sanitise it. From Wordnik.com. [Nice Trip?] Reference
Yesterday, the Durban negotiators released the latest version of the draft Declaration which they had striven to sanitise to meet such objections. From Wordnik.com. [However they twist this, it's still a Red Line] Reference
His staggering lack of charisma, his odd joker-like smile, his bumbling grasp of the economic realities, all too much for even the BBC to sanitise. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-30] Reference
The BEF said that an intermediary between the TRC and the people who give evidence was unnecessary and would only "sanitise and distort the evidence". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
However, we looked at flashpoints around the country and we had to take a decision to demilitarise those areas and sanitise them of the illegal weapons. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
To sanitise his older Blackberry devices, Schmidt would deliberately type his password incorrectly 11 times, which caused data on them to self-destruct. From Wordnik.com. [Second Hand Cell Phones Full of Secret Information | Impact Lab] Reference
"His condemnation of supposed efforts to sanitise gays and lesbians suggests that homosexuality is insanitary and therefore a sickness and a contamination.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He added that McIntosh also condemned Cameron's efforts to sanitise homosexuality and he said they had led to undue secrecy in official responses to HIV/Aids. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
They only emerge now to sanitise his efforts to prevent government power passing finally from the minority NP government which installed, upheld and subsidised him in power. From Wordnik.com. [TIME FOR ACTION IN NATAL/KWAZULU] Reference
Dengue scare: Armymen to sanitise areas near Games Village. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
They don't sanitise the Internet, they don't restrict anyone. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Dengue: Army help sought to sanitise Games village, says Sheila Dikshit. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
ALWAY ALWAYS sanitise them first to reduce the risk from SQL injection attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Webmaster-Talk.com] Reference
Kolkata: Stepping up its efforts to sanitise Naxal-affected regions in the state, the West. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Nepal reports outbreak of bird flu] Reference
This makes it even harder for the sunlight of publicity to help sanitise the health system. From Wordnik.com. [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference
Not that the left has a monopoly on intolerance, witness the campaigns in Texas and elsewhere to sanitise. From Wordnik.com. [TODAYonline] Reference
Ms Christine Anthony, spokesman for the Washington Department of Licensing, said it was impossible to sanitise live fish. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
Tragedy struck the first of the 3 vans carrying the jawans out to sanitise the only highway connecting Koraput with Malkangiri so that BSF battalions could get safe passage. From Wordnik.com. [NDTV News - Top Stories] Reference
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