Sentences with phrase «in inhospitable»

How many of them feel trapped — in an inhospitable and inflexible business model that requires them to be something they are not (skilled at marketing) and does not value what they are (technical lawyers)?

Of course people have survived in inhospitable climates, and substantial resources have been required to keep them alive.

Those who stick it out in the inhospitable hinterlands could become a new generation of pioneers, heroes and innovators who work to once again make this territory hospitable for the masses.

The conventional belief that global warming would soon melt the Arctic, and make economic the large - scale infrastructure needed to operate in its inhospitable environment, had many in the oil industry — and in governments — gearing up to claim their share of this new frontier.

What's more, the same team discovered three additional new species of these distinctive, snake - like lizards that are also living in some inhospitable - sounding places for wildlife: at a vacant lot in downtown Bakersfield, among oil derricks in the lower San Joaquin Valley and on the margins of the Mojave desert.»

It's difficult to imagine such abundance in an inhospitable environment until you see it for yourself.

«This is a place for big messages, where ethical revolutions begin,» he sings out, launching into a quick history lesson on the ancient events that have occurred in this inhospitable place, from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah to Moses and the wandering Israelites to countless others.

The landscape is dotted with mushrooms — fungi that have no roots and flourish in inhospitable areas without sunlight — which can serve as a metaphor for immigration.

In this inhospitable ground, filmmaker Derek Jarman planted poppies, wild orchids and water lilies, and arranged small circles of flint and pieces of driftwood to resemble standing stones and upright tombs.

For more of a cultural expedition explore the rainforest with an Aboriginal guide and find out how they have survived in this inhospitable environment for 50,000 years, way before Bear Grylls came on the scene.

With a coat unlike any other, they can not only survive, but thrive in inhospitable climates such as Siberia, Alaska, and the Arctic.

Although most household kitties do not live in inhospitable and threatening situations, they have legitimate reasons for the behaviors.

Until he punches the wrong diplomat in the nose and finds himself issued new orders: take command of a remote prison mine in the inhospitable Ice Blades Mountains.

He must find ways to survive in the inhospitable environment while managing to signal NASA for rescue.

Available on MUBI at the same time in cinemas, Rey follows a French adventurer, who, in the nineteenth century, sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under him.

Women, not surprisingly, improvised most desperately to retain their places in inhospitable worlds, all the way from the college - age single mom scraping by as a prostitute in Anahí Berneri's Alanis, a bracing Argentine exercise in heightened vérité, to the ongoing travails of Kholoud Al - Faqih, the first female to preside over a Shari'a court, profiled in Erika Cohn's indelible documentary The Judge.

It makes you feel like you are out there in the inhospitable and unforgiving wilds of the sea.

This became clearer as I progressed deeper into this strange, alien world, where I would face creatures that succumbed to the great poison known as Phazon in inhospitable environments like the fiery depths of Magmoor Caverns and the icy wastelands of Phendrana Drifts.

Therefore, it is possible that CCHa2 is down - regulated when glucose is abundant but other nutrients are not available, to limit growth in inhospitable environments.

They find that all existing coral reefs will be engulfed in inhospitable ocean chemistry conditions by the end of the century if civilization continues along its current emissions trajectory.

Just as you wouldn't bird - watch in interior Antarctica, you wouldn't search for aliens in inhospitable environments.

Because no Indian or Pakistani troops were present in the inhospitable northeastern areas beyond this point, the Ceasefire Line was not delineated as far as the Chinese border.

For Willibald, though, the Frisians were physically sowing seeds ---- sacred words, in this case ---- in an inhospitable environment.

When Mantel was a child, she lived with her parents and a baby brother in an inhospitable village in the north of England, where, among the children of the village, the wars of the Reformation were still being waged.

Not exact matches

It's a vehicle made famous for its ability to survive and thrive in some of the world's most inhospitable conditions.

It works in almost exactly the same way (by decreasing motility in the Fallopian tube and creating an inhospitable environment within the uterus), but it is hormone - free.

They call it a clear sign of a bubble: «There's city after city full of empty streets and vast government buildings, some in the most inhospitable locations.

After reading about the 2011 famine in Somalia, she created the Rescue Travois, a simple and inexpensive transportation device to help families travel safely across inhospitable terrain.

As my colleague Matt Heimer, who shepherded this extraordinary package of stories, points out in the guide's introduction, anyone who reviewed a quick B - roll of 2016 would have seen a terrain that looked utterly inhospitable for investors.

«The land was a frost pocket,» says Greenfield, «a low spot in an otherwise lovely agricultural area, and it would prove inhospitable to fine grape growing.»

For example, a public relations agent's stress comes from tight deadlines, oftentimes out of the agent's control, and meeting in the public under sometimes inhospitable circumstances.

It's not that God's word can not be heard in barren, inhospitable places or circumstances.

And closely following these came the fourth broken relationship: the world itself became inhospitable, and man and woman were no longer in harmony with their surroundings.

Published on Jan 15, 2013 Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans — people physically identical to us today — left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age.

But the preceding historical synopsis has sought principally to explicate the inhospitable contemporary context for that theory Through its denial of metaphysical knowledge, Kant's critique of reason created a dominant consensus in subsequent moral and political theory.

Here is one of the supreme ironies of history: for thousands of years in the Christian West, homosexuals have been the victims of inhospitable treatment — the true crime of Sodom - in the name of a mistaken understanding of Sodom's crime.

Who in our midst lives in pride and plenty and thoughtless ease, neglecting the poor, being inhospitable to refugees and persecuting those who, like Lot, offer them sanctuary?

On the very rare occasions when I, a Presbyterian pastor, find myself in the pew as guest at another church's communion service, I do a most inhospitable thing: I smell the cup.

The individualistic and essentially Protestant culture of America, he observes, would seem to be inhospitable to the inescapably hierarchical character of Catholicism in both its self «organization and its understanding of the Christian life.

Program Description Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans — people physically identical to us today — left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age.

By accepting from Austin and Holmes an overly sharp distinction between law and morality, by largely abandoning the search for the common good, and by permitting individual liberty or equality to trump most other values, mainstream American law may have had a part in fostering a set of cultural conditions inhospitable to communities of memory and mutual aid.

Also contributing to an increasingly inhospitable climate for mediating structures have been the special characteristics of the technocrats who predominate in modern governments, political parties, corporations, and mass media.

As punishment, the serpent must slink through life on its belly in the dirt, and man must toil against stubborn, inhospitable land until his death.

In his Life, then, Boniface proclaimed victory over spaces considered by a good deal of early medieval literature to be inhospitable to Christian civilization.

Instead, it sought to identify and justify a continuing role for Christian faith in an intellectual context that had become inhospitable.

2) We are forcing changes in natural systems themselves changes inhospitable even to species with considerable adaptability.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

The rugged terrains of the hills are harsh and sometimes inhospitable, in its changing forms and moods as though reiterating the fact that the nature is all powerful.

Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is a finicky root, similar to a turnip or radish, that only grows well in the cold, arid climates of high mountain plateaus, and in soil that is inhospitable to most other crops.

His Wildcats lost their second game, to St. Joseph's in Philadelphia's inhospitable Palestra, then reeled off 22 straight victories from Jacksonville, Fla., to Madison Square Garden.