Sentence examples for hostile soil from inspiring English sources
"We wanted to give Manu another go," Johnson said, acknowledging that the 20-year-old newcomer from Leicester might perform better next month if he has two games of Test rugby behind him, one of them on hostile soil, rather than a single run-out in front of a home crowd at Twickenham.
Consider only: Pausanias buried them thinking that he was laying them in friendly ground and among men as friendly; but you, if you kill us and make the Plataean territory Theban, will leave your fathers and kinsmen in a hostile soil and among their murderers, deprived of the honours which they now enjoy.
Like Woodrow Wilson, who sent Marines to Haiti in 1915 for a futile 19-year occupation, Bill Clinton believes it's possible to forcibly implant democracy in hostile soil.
Root systems are managed in several ways to increase crop productivity including through the use of rootstocks and intercrops, and the selection of species that can grow in hostile soils.
For example, ability to cope with hostile soils (salinity, sodicity), flowering time requirements, increasing water-use efficiency, and pests and diseases are traits important in enhancing yield that may be positively (Burrows 1970) or negatively (Joshi and Chand 2002) associated with disease development.
Nodule occupancy rates of the most favorable rhizobial strain depended on the competitiveness of other rhizobial strains in the rhizosphere and the environmental adaptability of the favorable rhizobial strain (in this case, to mild vermiculite or hostile sandy soil).
When America has invoked self-defense in the past, it was in response to clear threats by hostile nations to its soil or to its citizens.
"I see absolutely no reason why we should allow information warfare to be carried out on U.K. soil by hostile agents," he said.
Often, the soils are hostile to plant growth either via low pH (with consequent aluminium and manganese toxicities), or via being highly alkaline, ex-marine soils that can be sodic, have toxic levels of boron and marginal zinc availability.
It is the first time in the history of Britain that a British citizen has been killed by a hostile security service on British soil".
For many decades, most Americans knew of the Great Plains simply as the Great American Desert, an inhospitable area of poor soil, little water, hostile Indians, and general inaccessibility.
