Sentence examples for there were fertile from inspiring English sources

Certainly, there were fertile areas of Attica proper, for instance near Marathon, and at many periods Athens directly controlled some politically marginal but economically productive areas such as the Oropus district to the north or the island of Lemnos.

There are fertile grasslands nearby.

But there is fertile ground, and that is our responsibility".

"There is still a lot of work to do but there is fertile ground.

But among the details of his legislative record, there is fertile ground for his rivals' attacks.

There are fertile mysteries of transition, no less than of termination.

Large parts of Transdanubia are forested, but there are fertile agricultural areas and dispersed mining operations.

There are fertile pasturelands on the western borders with Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, but the bulk of South Kesteven district is a limestone plateau oriented north-south.

I'm pretty sure there is fertile ground out there for agreement between liberals and libertarians, but the first area that leaps to mind, for me, is shrinking the security state.

Because of the reputation football supporters had for hooliganism in the 1980s, he said disapprovingly, "there was fertile ground for the acceptance of rumour, gossip and deliberate misinformation, attributing the deaths to drunken misbehaviour by the fans".

There is fertile enough music and silence already in Catherine's head, and in the wonderfully caught rehearsals, in which avant-garde discordances embody "the vocalisations of a terrorised soul".