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'What the devil is the matter? ' he asked, eyeing me in a manner that I could ill endure after this inhospitable treatment.

The only places lacking indigenous ants are Antarctica and a few remote or inhospitable islands.

In the Arctic, above the ice and below, wildlife prospers in what might seem to be an inhospitable environment.

But during all that time it was developing certain habits that it might survive more easily upon the inhospitable earth.

It was a dusty, inhospitable landscape. The train represented a welcome refuge.

Only a few brave cyclists have dared to ride along its inhospitable plateau and forge a passage through these mystic lands into Kathmandu .

a world, which others can dominate with impunity, would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well- being of all people.

It should be able to deal simultaneously with several crises, large and small, in far-flung and inhospitable places.

All this could make much of the current forest area inhospitable to trees.

Deserts are hot inhospitable places , not cool, so you think .

Guantanamo Bay is one of the most inhospitable places on earth. The weather is harsh and the working conditions tough.

Saudi Arabia, which bans all political parties, also offers one of the world's most inhospitable environments for workers' movements.

Organizers collected a range of bold, sometimes zany, approaches to the threat of an increasingly inhospitable world.

He thinks these views ignore the reality of his inhospitable territory of treeless tundra, rock and ice.

The areas pummeled by the earthquake and tsunami in March would surely be inhospitable for an electric vehicle.

Extreme heat, dramatic daily temperature swings, and violent storms are the norm in this inhospitable place.

It's changing the chemistry of seawater, making it more acidic and otherwise inhospitable, threatening many important marine organisms.

He reveled in it like a man who has reached an oasis after traversing an inhospitable desert.

Yet many people, thinking of the distant continent only as a bleak, rocky, cold and inhospitable land mass, may wonder: Why all the fuss?

Mars According to the best evidence gathered by space probes and astronomers, Mars is an inhospitable planet.

They could have been isolated from millions of years from the inhospitable conditions on the planet's surface.

Their culture is inhospitable to certain liberal ideals, like pluralism, individualism and democracy.

Marco found the Kurds inhospitable, describing them as a people who "rob the merchants gladly. "

Its vast scale and often inhospitable geography make economic development capital intensive.

Only small villages are thinly scattered in this remote and inhospitable region of Arctic tundra bordering the Beaufort Sea.

For the most part the elderly struggle to exist in an inhospitable world .

If that station is inhospitable, short on commuters or long on cops, he walks EAST to the West Fourth Street subway station.

The Commerce Guild maintained a huge number of mines on many inhospitable planets.

solid in and out, pore-free, inhospitable to germs and sanitary.

Another is a thick atmosphere to drive a greenhouse effect, which renders Venus an inhospitable hot house.

They also have a home crowd who are vociferous enough to make Turf Moor an inhospitable place for any visiting side .

Aqueducts also allowed cities to be built in normally inhospitable environments, such as deserts, by providing an outside water source.

Few artists, Mr Bail demonstrates, can have enjoyed such poverty in such inhospitable surroundings.

Long journeys to inhospitable parts of the world.

But then the Sahara dried out, turning from a green savannah into an inhospitable desert.

Today, the dry, cold Martian climate makes it inhospitable to life, but maybe not completely so.

Las Vegas sits in a valley in some of North America's most inhospitable terrain.

ATOP a hill near Reykjavik's old harbour is a bronze statue of Ingolfur Arnarson, the first Nordic settler of inhospitable Iceland.

Add to that its more notorious conditions, namely altitude and smog, and you have the most inhospitable of venues for visiting teams.

I had scarcely passed my twelfth birthday when I entered the inhospitable regions of examinations.

Without this mechanism our "Blue Planet" might well be as dry and inhospitable as Mars.

But nostalgia is a resilient weed; it flourishes in the most inhospitable places.

Travel, in the words of Stephen Joyce, chief executive of Choice Hotels, has become spectacularly inhospitable.

The alien world, about the size of Saturn, is frigid and inhospitable.

If we Shanghainese are inhospitable, why would we bother going to these lengths?

It's a barren, inhospitable, but beautiful part of the world.

They are slow-growing but can colonize areas too inhospitable for other plants.

But this inhospitable terrain is also key to the boomtown future.

It was very inhospitable of them not even to offer us a cup of coffee.

Oil and mining firms carry extra risk for investors because they often operate in politically unstable or inhospitable places.

It orbits an inhospitable ice world named Orto Plutonia, which was a protectorate of the Pantorans.

Cars rule our lives financially, and they also make our cities inhospitable.

But the English are so inhospitable that these letters are hardly worth the paper they are written on.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

In reality, however, the moon is more inhospitable than the most desolate place on the earth.

In reality, the moon is more inhospitable than the most desolate place on Earth.

After the criminal selling off of Florida by the foul usurper, my father elected to remain in this inhospitable land.

When the visitors come to our school, we should make them feel at home; otherwise they will think we are inhospitable.

There are about 1, 235 other planets in the universe, most of which weren't given a high price tag because of their inhospitable climates.

There was an inhospitable smell in the room, of cold soot and hot dust;

Inhospitable: Unfavorable to life or growth; hostile

Unfavorable to health or well-being; inhospitable or adverse

Myth 4. That Medieval Islamic Culture Was Inhospitable to Science

A company inhospitable to new ideas