To be sure, the South is currently hostile terrain.
They will be even better on hostile terrain next week.
Once they do, they face the additional problem of surviving in unfamiliar and possibly hostile terrain.
In a combat zone, chaplains crisscross hostile terrain to reach soldiers of all faiths.
By the time he ran for president in 1960, the once-popular Nixon found right-wing media particularly hostile terrain.
The island of Borneo is enveloped by tropical rainforests and hostile terrain characterized by high denudation rates.
But 40 years later, we were still pinned down by a wily enemy, advancing by millimeters through hostile terrain.
In this complicated, difficult, hostile terrain, there's Weight Watchers, popping up like a mirage, a Starbucks in the Sahara.
But General Petraeus's counterinsurgency credo — "clear, hold, build" — is difficult enough to pull off in the hostile terrain of Kandahar Province.
Fear, he said as he prepared for a psychological aptitude test, would be the wrong word to describe his attitude to deployment in hostile terrain.
He would walk out, pushing down the "infinitesimal shying" he could feel deep inside, "the old, animal revulsion induced by hostile terrain".
