Sentence examples for inhospitable area from inspiring English sources

Permanently stationing troops in such an inhospitable area and keeping them supplied with even simple requirements such as food has been enormously expensive for both India and Pakistan.

Before the Fens were drained in the 17th century, this was an isolated and inhospitable area, rife with malaria and superstition, the domain of wild-fowlers and fishermen who crossed the marshlands on stilts or in punts.

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.

A bleak, inhospitable area unfavourable to agriculture, the highlands began to develop after the late 1930s, when new industries came to Žd'ár nad Sázavou and to Jihlava, the largest town.

Venturing a little farther, one begins to see the remnants of a home crudely made in an inhospitable area: discarded mattresses, rusty pans, artificial flowers, stuffed animals, a picture of Jesus.

As Mr. Strom's film suggests, the "autonomous region" was perhaps always a swindle -- a convenient way for Stalin to sweep the Jews out of the western districts and into a remote, isolated and spectacularly inhospitable area where he could keep his famously avuncular eye on them.

China's are mostly deeper, often in inhospitable areas, and made up of rock that resists American fracking techniques.

In the Arctic, for example, which is warming faster than any other large environment on earth, new shrubs and plants are invading formerly inhospitable areas.

The routes took planes and crews over some of the most inhospitable areas of northwest Africa, where native tribesmen maintained strong prejudices against Europeans.

At the same time yields have spiked because of genetically engineered crops and improvements in farming technology, which are also allowing farmers to grow in previously inhospitable areas.

Runaway groups of slaves, called Maroons, coalesced in the more inhospitable areas of tropical forest, such as interior lowland Colombia and inland Surinam.