Sentences with phrase «inhospitable land»

Inspired by the harsh landscape and living conditions of Colonia Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico City where houses were built on inhospitable land in ad hoc improvisations according to personal needs and economic resources, Cruzvillegas assembles sculptures and installations from found objects and disparate materials.

The inhospitable land has endowed them with values and a sense of hospitality that moves the outsider.»

Area X is a foreboding, inhospitable land where the laws of physics and nature have turned in on themselves as the environment mutates with new and fascinating results.

And a shift toward the warmer Mediterranean weather may have given late Stone Age people a toehold in what had been an inhospitable land.

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.

A people who have been pushed to the periphery from their farmland, as a result of the Herodian policy of city building on agricultural lands, the peasants found themselves against the arduous task of making an inhospitable land fit for cultivation.

Not exact matches

«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.»

It quickly became obvious that the vast majority of the bacteria released by people in the hospital die shortly after landing in what is a remarkably inhospitable ecosystem.

Developed by Related Designs in collaboration with Blue Byte, Anno 2070 takes place in a near - future environment where climate change has forced humanity to adapt to rising sea levels that have left stretches of once - fertile land completely inhospitable.

The landscape covering the oceans of oil is inhospitable and the work done on the face of the land is the bleak, strenuous toil of hard men wrestling with the cast iron machinery and implements of their age.

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A Land Rover salesperson likely will encourage you to find the toughest, most inhospitable local terrain you can in order to test the Discovery's mettle.

Other than corporate competition, players will also have to deal with environmental hazards of whatever inhospitable planet they happen to land on.

Its growth seemingly arrested (a daub of paint runs suggestively from a cleft branch), this tree is inhospitable, if not dead, and the birds land elsewhere.

Habitats on land and in the sea are changing, making them inhospitable for some species, while letting others move in and take over.

«The implication of our study is that elevated CO2 is sufficient to lead to inhospitable conditions for marine life and excessively high temperatures over land would contribute to the demise of terrestrial life,» the authors concluded in the article.

Although the lands of the Nature Reserve may appear to outsiders to be but a part of a wider, harsh, inhospitable, even frightening, landscape, traditional owners see them as welcoming, and speak of the Nature Reserve and its surrounds as «good country», and as «home».