Sentence examples for the very soil from inspiring English sources

As Jeremy Bentham pointed out, "publicity is the very soil of justice, it keeps the judge, while trying, under trial".

Mali could quite easily be branded, like Wales, as a "Land of Song" - music seems to be in the very soil.

Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished".

Decades of operation have heated the very soil through which the tunnels run and led to the sweaty climate familiar to today's passengers.

In "Ur of the Chaldees," Leonard Woolley asked: "Why, if Ur was an empire's capital, if Sumer was once a vast granary, has the population dwindled to nothing, the very soil lost its virtue?" The answer -- the reason "the very soil lost its virtue" -- is that heavy irrigation in a hot, dry climate leads to a gradual accumulation of salt in the soil.

Husbands and wives, grandparents and infants were rounded up and killed, their bodies hurriedly buried days later by fearful relatives in the very soil that had sustained them for generations.

The anterior coincides with the very low soil moisture content across the soil profile in the presence of Napier grass by the end of the drought treatment (Fig.  9B).

Originally the area was forested, and the roots of the trees protected the very sandy soil against torrential rain.

In swampy areas the very thick soil is constantly nourished by humus, the organic material resulting from the decomposition of plant or animal matter.

Lignin enhances SOC accumulation only in the very surface soil (0 5 cm) but not below this depth, rendering the restoration of subsoil C stocks difficult in these ecosystems.

At Site 2, the very sandy soil, statistically significant differences were found only under wet conditions.