Sentence examples for receptive ground from inspiring English sources
Were the economy to recover and unemployment to drop, their message might fall on less receptive ground.
Cursing the Muslim despots of his time, al-Afghani lamented on his deathbed: "Would that I had sown all the seed of my ideas in the receptive ground of the people's thoughts".
But the national campaign, promoted by Personhood USA, a Colorado-based group, found more receptive ground in Mississippi, where anti-abortion sentiment crosses party and racial lines, and where the state already has so many restrictions on abortion that only one clinic performs the procedure.
Females normally retreat from the bowing display and exhibit submissive postures but if receptive sink to the ground with lowered wings and tail.
WASHINGTON -- As Syria peace talks begin in Geneva, America's key partners on the ground feel neglected, excluded and increasingly receptive to a man who says the U.S has the war-torn country all wrong -- Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It has been suggested that the early observations about a lack of stigma in Africa were due to a lack of research on the ground rather than a more culturally receptive attitude to mental illness [ 2].
The breeding grounds For any change to happen, a receptive environment plays a vital role.
But Republicans are calculating that the political ground has shifted, making the public, concerned about the mounting national debt, receptive to proposals to rein in costs by reshaping the program.
Cities are also less receptive to the rain when it comes: their hard, impermeable surfaces conspire to keep rainwater above ground.
The results showed that activation corresponding to ground regions was reduced for high- versus low-competition silhouettes in V4, where receptive fields (RFs) are large enough to encompass the familiar objects in the grounds, and in V1/V2, where RFs are much smaller.
It is not the most grounded of the species that survive, nor the most shrewd, however one most receptive to change.
