How To Use Inhospitable In A Sentence
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Without the greenhouse gases, the world would be a bleak, inhospitable place.
The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
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But this inhospitable terrain is also key to the boomtown future.
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To emphasize the cold, inhospitable emptiness of the West, O'Sullivan had to aim his lens elsewhere than at the roads and bivouacs just out of camera range.
Western Development
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inhospitable mountain areas
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Plants grow in a wide variety of inhospitable substrates including stone, rock (epilithic), recently decomposed stony soils, or sandy soils.
Campos Rupestres montane savanna
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At this distance, at least, he remains an affecting symbol of human resilience in an inhospitable environment.
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About three p.m. I arrive at the caravansarai of Ahwan, a dreary, inhospitable place in an equally dreary, inhospitable country.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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Moreover, each vehicle had to be capable, during each patrol, of traveling some 2,000 miles over unmapped, inhospitable terrain, and scorching, shifting sands.
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In between were vast distances of open territory and rugged inhospitable land.
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This country is basically uninhabitable and extremely inhospitable with the exception of the coastline.
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The plants have grabbed a hold forming rafts of rushes and weeds; and teasels and fireweed march up inhospitable slopes.
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Among the zoological delights that awaited them according to him were the dagger-tooth: a 120 kilo, furred predator of the mountains; the greater snowbird with a three-meter wingspread and talons that could carry off a full-grown Klingon; plus a host of uncatalogued amphibians that made the marshes acutely inhospitable.
Pawns and Symbols
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They walked for miles across steep and inhospitable terrain.
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So why do so many people with so much wealth live in such an inhospitable climate?
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Located on the south-east of Hirta, the largest of St Kilda's five islands, even Village Bay can become an inhospitable place when a south-east wind gets up.
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the once inhospitable landscape is now tamed
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Their choices include nations that have swarms of malaria-infested mosquitoes, bad TV, deadly climates, decapitation issues, French people, bland food and other signs of inhospitableness.
Driving the Rich Into the Sea
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her greeting was cold and inhospitable
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It is inhospitable to turn a stranger away.
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But most of it is under tundra permafrost, if not indeed under even more inhospitable terrain.
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And, if anything, I can easily imagine some variant of these techniques being eventually used to "terraform" (i.e. make more Earth-like) Mars and other currently inhospitable planets-think
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His coronation in Australia has come on the back of a tour de force in media management, in the most inhospitable media environment in the sporting world.
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Two years of barbaric fighting in the most inhospitable mountain terrain left 1m soldiers and civilians dead.
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While the natural beauty of the dunes is undeniable it is a very inhospitable environment.
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At this distance, at least, he remains an affecting symbol of human resilience in an inhospitable environment.
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The need to synoptically characterize physical and biological properties of this large, inhospitable and remote ocean over long time periods leads to the use of satellite data.
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Incidentally, some years Great Basin bristlecone pines awaken in late June, discern (exactly how remains a mystery) that pending summer conditions will be inhospitable; drop back into dormancy drawing upon meager sugar reserves, enabling them to survive for another sleepy 12 months: Giving an entirely new meaning to Fastina lente or make haste slowly.
Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Ancient Pines by Reducing our Global Footprints
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I assume this notice was just a traditional walker-frightener put up by an inhospitable farmer.
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The exhibition showcases incredible work - done in inhospitable terrain, without laptops, cell phones or machinery.
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It is isolated geographically, surrounded by inhospitable landscapes that trap its inhabitants where they are.
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He was among 700 competitors in a gruelling 150-mile race across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the Sahara Desert.
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The grass, being sodden with rain, afforded the young gentleman a rather inhospitable couch; his clothes were considerably bemired; and his hat was rolling in the mud on the other side of the road.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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This is a scientifically curious situation, and it takes precedence over the famed Thallonian inhospitableness.
Star Trek® New Frontier
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The sharp rocky shores make the island inhospitable to man.
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His coronation in Australia has come on the back of a tour de force in media management, in the most inhospitable media environment in the sporting world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Raw and powerful, black smokers look like cautionary totems of an inhospitable planet.
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The soldiers, too, dramatized how inhospitable the Platte country had become.
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This country is basically uninhabitable and extremely inhospitable with the exception of the coastline.
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He encountered storms, bogs and forests, was given the cold shoulder by the inhospitable inhabitants of Fouzilhac, got lost and had to camp out for the first time.
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One can stand at these sites and almost go back thousands of years and visualize the strenuous efforts required to simply exist in this waterless, uncultivable, inhospitable land.
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He trekked across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.
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· As a result of uncontrolled hunting the wild yak is endangered and is now restricted to remote barrens on upland plateaus and highlands in northern Tibet and Chinghai, inhospitable even to domestic yaks.
1 Domesticated Banteng
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Some governments are inhospitable to aid workers.
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With their long, narrow wings, providing maximum lift and minimum drag, they are perfectly designed for harnessing the winds and wave-deflected airflows of the world's most inhospitable seas.
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Though the building received accolades from the architecture community, many critics considered it inhospitable to the display of art.
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He trekked across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.
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Two years of barbaric fighting in the most inhospitable mountain terrain left 1m soldiers and civilians dead.
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The sacred lake didn't look any different from a thousand other inhospitable high-altitude tarns found everywhere in Tibet.
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The sun will be ferocious; this is one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
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I'll have to cook them a meal or they'll think I'm inhospitable.
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As Jude worried through the logistics of releasing the dead-zone coordinates to the mechs without revealing them to BioMax—though the whole beauty of the location was its inhospitableness to orgs, making secrecy a bonus rather than a necessity—I watched the door, half expecting Zo to burst through with a last word.
Wired
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Medieval castles were also designed to be as inaccessible as possible, so look for angles that reveal the inhospitable surroundings and the drama of their location.
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Microbes are microscopic organisms that can thrive in seemingly inhospitable environments and are sometimes referred to as extremophiles.
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She lived in Toronto for one year and discovered that English Canadians were not the cold, inhospitable lot she had been led to believe they were.
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Built on a rise to command views of the valley at its foot, it looked dour and inhospitable and threatening even on sunny days, and could chill the soul under nimbostratus.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
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In a terrain so inhospitable to a civilization of hunters and gatherers, the Kurds became a race of raiders and traders.
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They walked for miles across steep and inhospitable terrain.
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The challenge ahead ... 5 laps, each more than 6 miles long, of the most inhospitable terrain in the Malvern Hills.
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But one inhospitable place, short on wildlife and good excuses for stopping by, remained unexplored by the veteran broadcaster.
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Incredibly, 250 years ago the Lake District was seen as an ugly and inhospitable wilderness.
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The figures move carefully and deliberately across inhospitable terrain, picking their way through the dusty, red-rock desert.
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They were lonely, inhospitable places that could burn you up.
Caring for your Unborn Child
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Big history in all its guises has been inhospitable to the questions of meaning and intention so central to intellectual history.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But one inhospitable place, short on wildlife and good excuses for stopping by, remained unexplored by the veteran broadcaster.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am a name nude known to collectors, an overdosed under-achiever, greatest pilot to the inhospitable middle-class rationale.
Oogy Wawa
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But, above all, they will look on with a mixture of pity and disbelief at the poor people who still insist on living in this inhospitable territory.
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The barn owl too - a cosmopolitan species in the global sense - is another established city dweller, though now perhaps, some cities are proving to be too inhospitable to it.
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Nor were its inhabitants ‘a wild and inhospitable people’, of whom it could be said ‘All their habits are the habits of barbarians’.
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Water is in short supply, the soil is barely arable, the terrain often inhospitable.
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Over the past three decades, bacteria and archaea have been found in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth.
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When candles are brought into the tent at night, the servant wishes the company a good evening: he says "_M'sah elkhere_," the literal meaning of which is "_Good be with you this evening_;" which salutation it is courteous to return, even to a slave; and if any one, however great his rank, were not to return it, he would be considered a bad muselman, a disaffected and inhospitable barbarian.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
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The inhospitable terrain was, paradoxically, one factor that made it possible for the inhabitants to offer hospitality to so many refugees.
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One of the most enduring images of early Arizona is the solitary prospector seeking his fortune in gold in the inhospitable Sonoran Desert.
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Curling his toes in a vain attempt to frustrate the inhospitable lino, Mungo watched, fascinated.
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I'll have to cook them a meal or they'll think I'm inhospitable.
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Gruff, inhospitable, and monolingual, the Russians sprawl in folding chairs, kibitz around card tables, smoke in defiance of ‘no smoking ‘signs, and studiously ignore customers who stray past their booths.
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Another barks: 'Why is it that explorers always want to go to inhospitable places?
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Separated by the valleys of the north-flowing river Eden and the south-flowing river Lune, these two uplands were inhospitable places for early settlement.
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Another barks: 'Why is it that explorers always want to go to inhospitable places?
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The unique geography of two gulfs separated by vast inland tracts of inhospitable country led the early Australian settlers to rely entirely on coastal trading.
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Rusty iron scraps, pipes and unusually shaped stones were scattered around the inhospitable and largely uninhabited area, it said.
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You climb & climb & suddenly you emerge at Roncevalles I have to say that I found it as inhospitable as 30 years ago—there are a couple of restaurants, church of Saint James & the old abbey, which is now turned over for lodging pilgrims.
Archive 2009-11-22
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Australians are squeezed between two inhospitable infinities, one dry, the other wet.
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It is a harsh, inhospitable land, covered in flies and governed by insufferable temperatures that defies easy civilization.
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I'll have to cook them a meal or they'll think I'm inhospitable.
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In this sort of situation, conservationists will normally build wildlife corridors across inhospitable land, making it easier for breeding couples to meet.
The Sun
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All of this enacted as if in an existential landscape, against the background of the great unpeopled, inhospitable territory beyond the cities.
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Once the pair found a suitable location, they used the ice as a berth - there are not too many major ports or harbours in this inhospitable part of the world.
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At first I thought Minnesota was going to be some very remote place, unwelcoming and inhospitable.
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Known as swamp she-oak in its native Australia, Casuarina glauca grows in difficult, saline sites inhospitable to many other trees.
Chapter 20
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Burgundy so inhospitable as to neglect one of the bravest and most noble gentlemen that ever trode a court? —
Quentin Durward
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Sir, you are naturally kind and human -- you shall not become cruel and inhospitable on my account.
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Sheltered in their beehive huts, ringed around a tiny church and graveyard, they survived for centuries in one of the most inhospitable environments imaginable.
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1Although inhospitable, the Cedarberg is far from uninhabitable or innavigable.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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There's so little fresh water and the volcanic landscape is so inhospitable, only a narrow, unique spectrum of creatures thrive.
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He admits the prospect of seven days cycling over some of the world's most inhospitable terrain is a bit daunting.
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Apart from Earth, our solar system appears to be an inhospitable place.
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Patience pulls greed weeds, and a patient heart is an inhospitable environment for greed weeds.
Christianity Today
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Struggling to cope with the hundreds of migrants who are entering Greece every day through an inhospitable, unmonitored stretch of the country's border with Turkey near the town of Edirne, Athens appealed to Brussels for help at the weekend.
Armed EU guards to patrol Greece-Turkey border
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Once one of the most inhospitable joints in the Village, Smalls has reinvented itself in recent years as possibly the city's friendliest and homiest jazz club in terms of the music as well as the room itself.
Reviving Sounds and Legends
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And still we drive south, close-hauled on the wind, toward the inhospitable tip of the continent.
CHAPTER XXXII
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It's a harsh, inhospitable area where the people are fighting to survive, keeping cattle, camels and goats on small pockets of arable land.
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It can block the surge of hormones that cause of ovulation and it can also thicken the mucous and change the uterine lining which makes it inhospitable for a fertilized egg to implant.
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AN adventurer from Sheffield has vanished while attempting a solo walk through some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.
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They were lonely, inhospitable places that could burn you up.
Caring for your Unborn Child
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Hoodia grows in the world's most inhospitable places where it scarcely rains during the summer.
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He trekked across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.
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Doctors had obviously not been reading the more general literature on bacteria in the highly inhospitable ocean vents.
The Times Literary Supplement
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the barren inhospitable desert
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Dashed upon a bleak, inhospitable and unfortunately uninhabited shore, the five shipwrecked souls were faced with extinction if not rescued.
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The unique geography of two gulfs separated by vast inland tracts of inhospitable country led the early Australian settlers to rely entirely on coastal trading.
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The sin of Sodom wasn't anal sex or homosexuality, it was inhospitableness and rape.
THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan!!
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The sun will be ferocious; this is one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'll have to cook them a meal or they'll think I'm inhospitable.
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For three centuries inhabitants of the Sertao have relied on pilgrimages to sacred sites, deep into this inhospitable land, to expiate their sins, acquire amulets, and simply exchange news.
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Apart from Earth, our solar system appears to be an inhospitable place.
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They gave a touch of delicate beauty to this challengingly inhospitable place.
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They were gray, and the coldness she saw in them was even colder than the freezing, inhospitable tundra that her best friend had come from.
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The tribe has lived for generations in the inhospitable mountain regions of the country.
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Patience pulls greed weeds, and a patient heart is an inhospitable environment for greed weeds.
Christianity Today
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He trekked across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.
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I'll have to cook them a meal or they'll think I'm inhospitable.
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Many feel it's a memorial to all the hard working men who forged trails through inhospitable blocks of back country.
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While the natural beauty of the dunes is undeniable it is a very inhospitable environment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Incidentally, some years Great Basin bristlecone pines awaken in late June, discern (exactly how remains a mystery) that pending summer conditions will be inhospitable; drop back into dormancy drawing upon meager sugar reserves, enabling them to survive for another sleepy 12 months: Giving an entirely new meaning to Fastina lente or make haste slowly.
Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Ancient Pines by Reducing our Global Footprints
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Located on the south-east of Hirta, the largest of St Kilda's five islands, even Village Bay can become an inhospitable place when a south-east wind gets up.
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So why would any sane recreational diver seek to dive in such an inhospitable environment?
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It was an inhospitable house: cold and damp in the winter, humid in the summer.
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It was all done against the clock, too: after the middle of October, the Barents Sea is too inhospitable for rescue work.
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The nearest clinic was more than 50 miles away over rough terrain and inhospitable roads, and her husband, her only assistant during a half-dozen previous births, was drinking at a cantina.
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He trekked across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.
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they are extremely inhospitable these days
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In the face of this calamity, the puzzle remains why so many settlers moved to a place that turned out to be so inhospitable.
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The walls are painted an inhospitable pink and the chairs are mismatched and less comfortable.
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If you have men and women thrown together in inhospitable surroundings, you are going to get some sexual tension.
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The inhospitableness of the globe was clearly illustrated by incredible bodies of water, thick masses of moist air; and tropical vegetation.
Bloodhype
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Remote hill farmers may deserve support to prevent inhospitable areas of the country being depopulated.
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In particular, areas between reserves were not as inhospitable to species in the reserves as oceans were to insular species.
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Algae then grow on the surface and bottom-dwelling plants, deprived of light and oxygen, die off making the water even more turbid and inhospitable to fish and other life.
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Doctors had obviously not been reading the more general literature on bacteria in the highly inhospitable ocean vents.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Tibetans still form a majority of people living in the inhospitable countryside.
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Sir, you are naturally kind and human -- you shall not become cruel and inhospitable on my account.
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If you have men and women thrown together in inhospitable surroundings, you are going to get some sexual tension.
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Her fusty specialty in ancient bones is no proper preparation for dealing with colleagues and friends who turn out to be different than she thought and her self acknowledged lack of fitness is a serious handicap in some most unpleasant forays into an inhospitable landscape.
Advance reader reviews of The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths.
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The inhospitable terrain was, paradoxically, one factor that made it possible for the inhabitants to offer hospitality to so many refugees.
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Captured by slave traders in the inhospitable desert, Lazar fought his way to freedom, earning the coveted position of Spur of Percheron.
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The Nabataeans flourished and built a great city in the inhospitable surroundings, dealing in silk and wool, perfumes and aromatic substances, foodstuffs and oil.
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Without the greenhouse gases, the world would be a bleak, inhospitable place.
The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
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And it's the island's lush, vivid greenery which marks it out from the arid, inhospitable, landscapes of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife.