Sentences with phrase «turning hostile territory»

Thus the missionaries of early medieval Europe sought places where God was silent, turning hostile territory into fertile ground ---- at least according to their triumphalist hagiographers.

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Narayen's turn of phrase is hardly original — since at least the 1990s, corporate bosses have been referencing apocryphal tales of military commanders in hostile territory motivating their troops to conquer or be killed by destroying their ride home.
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