Sentence examples for this very soil from inspiring English sources

The guide is called "Made in Texas," and it hopes to educate all Texas students brown, white, black about who Mexican-Americans are and how they live right here in the United States, where their community is at home, where there is a two-hundred-year history on this very soil.

For native Christians in the Holy Land -- that small, beleaguered Arab community whose ancestors, on this very soil, were among the first to follow Jesus of Nazareth -- the visit of Pope Benedict XVI was nothing less than a godsend.

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".

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.

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

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.

Veg boxes, food swaps, pop-up gardens and pick your own flower farms; Britain is striving for a sustained connection to our kitchens, our gardens and the very soil beneath our feet.

His feet grip the wooden deck, wood that once stood as trees grasping the very soil he abandons, for what could be an eternity in the swells of the world's oceans.

On this very sandy soil serious subsurface compaction was also found due to vehicular traffic under moist conditions.