Sentence examples for Infertile ground from inspiring English sources

It's as if Larsson were searching out the most laughably infertile ground for killings he could.

I felt I was planting my seed in infertile ground," he said.

The ultimate painting from the war, "Paths of Glory," simply shows two dead soldiers face down on the infertile ground.

The political upside is unclear, but for some the ideological bonus is that such uncertainty creates infertile ground for peace efforts.

"I felt I was planting my seed in infertile ground … As a black person, unfortunately, you have to work twice as hard to get half as far".

The combination seems to cry out, once again, for an activist and principled politics of the left.In left-wing terms, however, America is infertile ground.

Dry, infertile soil limited agriculture, and timber was rare.

When a car battery manufacturer refused to allow women to do certain jobs unless they had a doctor's note stating they were infertile, on the grounds that lead exposure could harm a fetus, employees sued, and Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: Concern for a woman's existing or potential offspring historically has been the excuse for denying women equal employment opportunities.

They are still isolated, the ground is infertile, and land is rarely owned by those who work it.

Arctic plants must contend with a harsh environment including low temperatures, continuous daylight in summer, infertile and often mobile soil and permanently frozen ground, and in many areas strong, dry winds and blowing snow.

By shutting down criminal gangs, he says, the ground for terrorism becomes infertile.