In January 2011, the governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, issued a ban on new buildings in heavily developed areas, warning that Bali was in danger of becoming a sterile land bristling with concrete.
Most plants require one to six feet of topsoil, with good drainage, but there are plants that will grow in rock, sand, sterile soil, boggy land, shallow water, or open water.
It is situated just northwest of the Luni River on a sterile tract of land covered with high sand hills.
But it will be 'graded.' " A similarly serious atmosphere prevailed at the EnCana "man camps" — employee dormitories — which were laid out in a sterile section of land on the other side of the highway.
When others succeeded, rumors spread that growing the Mexican wheats would make the land sterile, or children who ate them would become sterile.
Sea pens are a good compromise between the deep ocean and the shallow sterile boxes on land where captive cetaceans are currently housed.
The flight crew was criticised for not maintaining a sterile cockpit during the landing, with excessive non-flight related discussion going on throughout the flight.
The EEA warned that as a result of intensive practices, with the aggressive use of pesticides and other chemicals, the loss of hedgerows, field margins and other semi-wild areas, as well as the monocultures prevailing in many areas and the rapid turnover of land, many large areas of farmed land are becoming "sterile" in terms of biodiversity.
To find him eschewing the over-elaborate poncery that makes Michelin-land such a sterile, overpriced bore makes me hope and suspect that this reformed firebrand has matured into one of the most positive and important influences on British cooking today.
The notion that the land was virtually sterile in the Precambrian (e.g., Bambach 1999; Blackwell 2000; Corcoran and Mueller 2004; Nesbitt and Young 2004; Gensel 2008) underestimates the impact that microbes could have had on the biosphere.
