"hospitable terrain" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe an area of land that is favorable or accommodating to people or animals. Example: The hilly region of Tuscany in Italy offers hospitable terrain for vineyards, making it a popular destination for wine lovers.
Gun-control advocates have long viewed Hartford, the capital, as hospitable terrain, because Connecticut is a relatively liberal state and already has more gun restrictions than most.
While the conflict in Wardak has essentially been a ground fight, Kunar has less hospitable terrain, making the use of air power more attractive and raising the risk of civilian casualties.
Having awarded their electoral votes to Michael S. Dukakis in 1988 and to Bill Clinton in the next two presidential elections, Washington and Oregon would seem to be immensely hospitable terrain for a Democratic aspirant to the White House -- perhaps so much so that neither major party candidate would worry much about bothering with campaigning here.
Wine experts have known for several years that a hotter, drier climate would change growing conditions in many of the most prized wine regions – forcing vineyards to mist grapes on the vine to protect them from the sun, or move sensitive vines to more hospitable terrain.
The route, which linked Europe and Asia more than 2,000 years ago, meanders 10,000 miles across some of the world's least hospitable terrain.
The BAM was originally conceived in the 1930s as a hugely ambitious engineering project that would blaze a path through some of Russia's least hospitable terrain, creating easier access to Siberia's vast mineral wealth and facilitating colonisation of the region.
But it takes little time traveling through this region to discover how hospitable a terrain this can be for Mr. bin Laden and his beliefs.
To the south and east, the landscape takes on a sharper note as the hills become higher and the terrain less hospitable.
But the war certainly began to shift there -- to a country where the terrain is more hospitable than Tora Bora, but the politics are a lot less forgiving for Americans.
Jolo's terrain is even less hospitable than densely forested and rugged Basilan.
That terrain is far less hospitable to Mr. Romney than Michigan and Arizona, particularly a swath of Southern states, where polls suggest that he is trailing Mr. Santorum and Newt Gingrich.
