Sentence examples for unfriendly ground from inspiring English sources
The seeds of androgyny and sci-fi futurism sown in so many of last season's influential shows have fallen on unfriendly ground here.
One popular account of introspection — the "inner sense" model on which introspection is taken to be a kind of "internal scanning" of the contents of one's mind (Armstrong 1968) — has been taken to be unfriendly to functionalism, on the grounds that it's hard to see how the objects of such scanning could be second-order relational properties of one's neural states (Goldman 1993).
Though famously verdant and animated in the summer, an unfriendly layer of ice now coated the ground, and the areas exempt were muddy and slick.
And once they are on solid ground, the conditions are often just as harsh and unfriendly.
Most vehicles have run out of gas; cooking fuel is scarce, forcing families to rely on environmentally unfriendly wood for fuel; and the humanitarian response to earthquake victims has nearly ground to a halt.
Certainly the current court has placed Congressional authority under an unfriendly microscope: there were, after all, five votes to strike down the health care law on Commerce Clause grounds.
Pakistan is a heavily Muslim country with nuclear weapons, a large number of radical Islamists, unfriendly relations with India -- but it's currently providing us with overflight rights, flights out of the country, ground transportation for international troops, and logistics assistance in the war on terror.
That was decidedly unfriendly.
