Sentence examples for inhospitable soil from inspiring English sources

It left you hoping that this ensemble would manage to fix its roots in the inhospitable soil of New York's early-music scene.

At best, it will be inhospitable soil for a genuinely virtuous and religious way of life.

This pluralism, and the protected status of religious minorities, has made Morocco inhospitable soil for radicals seeking to drive a wedge between Islam and other faiths.

They reap tiny crops from hard and inhospitable soils.

It is of great significance that guttation is a means of excreting excess of harmful elements such as Ni, Se, etc. from metal-enriched soils thereby promoting plant growth on such inhospitable soils.

I am rooting for one of the tiny spacecraft now lying alone on the inhospitable Martian soil, hopefully sending out messages to Earth, almost 100 million miles away, and I will not be disappointed if the first encounter with evidence of life elsewhere is made by a machine.

Reasonable doubt can take root in the most inhospitable-seeming soil.

Timber production thrives where the land is all but unarable, and viticulture in the southern hill regions flourishes in an otherwise inhospitable type of soil.

Because bamboo requires few nutrients, it can grow in soil inhospitable to other plants — not only does it thrive there, it can reclaim the land so other plants can thrive, too.

Expanding tree canopies can be difficult to achieve in built environments because urban land is costly and urban soil inhospitable to vegetation so engineered planting systems offer a potentially valuable tool for achieving sustainable urban forests.

Mine tailings are inhospitable to plants and soil organisms, because of low pH and poor soil organic matter contents.