Instead of this rich wilderness, we now have sanitised, chemicalised agricultural acres which stretch for mile upon mile, and are more inhospitable to wildlife than the most decked, patioed, and over-tended suburban garden.
And though President Bush's focus on rigorous standards for schools has wide support among black leaders and voters, his administration has otherwise been so dominated by a fixed antipathy to governmental activism that it has proved to be more inhospitable to blacks than was that of his more moderate, if less symbolically attuned, father.
It's extremely hard to get here – far less accessible than most public municipal art – and upon arrival, it is more physically inhospitable than the most uptight New York art gallery.
Conducting science is more challenging in remote, inhospitable places.
Few places are more obviously inhospitable to anti-Semitic rants than the Brooklyn Chess Club, housed in the social hall of the Seaview Jewish Center.
No wonder there is little high technology in lands so inhospitable to freewheeling, American-style entrepreneurship, or that unemployment there is more than twice ours.
Note that some types of houseplants will generally be more tolerant of inhospitable conditions (like temperature swings) than others.
The offshore and more remote developments that will replace them are even more inhospitable than the Khanty-Mansi region of Siberia, where the primary fields are today.
But it does argue that areas with high and rising levels of homeownership are more likely to be inhospitable to innovation and job creation and to have less labor mobility and longer commutes to work.
For example, highly mobile species (e.g., birds and rats) were more likely to escape from inhospitable habitats to refuges during glaciations and then to disperse long distances to new habitats after ice ages; the result was structured genetic diversity patterns and expanded demographics [ 19, 21].
