"soil" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Pneumatophores (aerial roots) allow mangroves to absorb gases directly from the atmosphere, and other nutrients such as iron, from the inhospitable soil.
- But it has not been easy for the Berkeley Street Garden to take root, and not just because of inhospitable soil.
- They reap tiny crops from hard and inhospitable soils.
- And so the wars gradually died down like a wind, though not before some British blood had been spilled on that inhospitable soil.
- Democracy and the rule of law are taking root in Russia's inhospitable soil.
- It was a reminder of how even something so fragile as faith could survive in inhospitable soil.
- Windblown sand had collected here and a solitary metal weed had taken root in this inhospitable soil.
- Its native habitat is southern Europe, where it grows on rocky hill and mountainsides, from the most inhospitable soil.
- The Council is thoroughly naive in trying to plant the delicate flower of Western democracy in the inhospitable soil of Afghan tribalism.
- Equally, we must not engage in behind-the-scenes agitation in a hypocritical attempt to plant so-called 'European values' in inhospitable soil.
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