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This provided fertile ground for anti-Western, reactionary, violent versions of Islam.
They provide food, medicine, fuel, shelter, clean water, and fertile soils.
And that creates fertile ground for dangerous animosities.
Basic science often provides the fertile substrate from which technological breakthroughs sprout, and seemingly unrelated and obscure research areas may intersect and synergize unexpectedly.
By contrast, authoritarian regimes’ repression of civilians, and their non-differentiation between civilians and killers, provides extremists with fertile recruiting conditions by discrediting the government in the eyes of a significant part of its population.
None of the four “tiger” economies – Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea – were as blessed with natural resources and fertile soil.
This pool of frustrated talent may prove fertile ground to international terrorist organizations seeking support for their extremist agendas.
This turmoil has created a fertile breeding ground for militarized and radicalized youth.
Indeed, since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster last year, security in Sinai has deteriorated, and the region has become fertile ground for Islamic extremism.
Al Qaeda-type groups already have gained ground in the Middle East and North Africa as an unintended byproduct of US policies, creating fertile conditions for stepped-up international terrorism in the coming years.
Hollande’s plans for a growth initiative fall on fertile ground, especially in the European Parliament, which has repeatedly called for such measures.
Though Putin has cultivated nationalism in Russia – according to Harvard University’s Timothy Colton, at a recent meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, Putin called himself the country’s “biggest nationalist” – he found fertile ground to plow.
Failure to engage in critical debates about Latin American democracy will surely provide fertile ground for reviving the authoritarian fantasies of the past.
By that time, Mexican police institutions were in a state of decomposition, making them fertile ground for the drug traffickers to corrupt.
Foreign trade was a fertile area of corruption, too.
In that sense, bin Laden hoped that the US would be lured into a bloody war in Afghanistan, similar to the Soviet intervention two decades earlier, which had created such a fertile recruiting ground for jihadists.
Youth unemployment there is around 24%, and 34% in Italy – creating fertile recruiting ground for the extremes of left and right.
The point is simple: Argentina's real resources, its people, with their enormous talents and skills, its fertile land, its capital goods remain.
With one billion people - one sixth of all humanity -- stretched across a diverse sub-continent that ranges from the Himalayas to desert to fertile river valleys to great coastal cities, everything about India lies beyond generalization.
China might, indeed, have an interest in some border areas with fertile soil and moderate climate.
The official rationale was that eggs and sperm are not commodities, but gifts from a fertile couple to an infertile one.
Beyond the Great Recession and the migration crisis, both of which created fertile ground for populist parties, the aging of the West’s population will continue to alter political power dynamics in populists’ favor.
These changes create a fertile ground for a fee-based corporate advisory business, an area of banking that has traditionally been a stronghold of US investment banking.
Among the many horrific consequences of such an outcome would be mass migration toward Europe and other Western countries and the creation of fertile recruiting grounds for new generations of jihadists.
After World War II, Americans migrated steadily to California, a land of opportunity, great natural beauty, and some of the world’s most fertile agricultural land.
The frustration of large segments of the population has created fertile ground for tribalism, which politicians like Trump and Bolsonaro have eagerly exploited.
Although established as a unitary Hindu kingdom, with politics directed from the Himalayan foothills, today around half the population live in the fertile southern plains and more than one-third are from over 50 indigenous, largely non-Hindu communities.
During his tenure as Secretary-General of the United Nations, Annan, who died last month, often wondered why so much of Africa – with its abundance of fertile land and freshwater – had failed to turn farming into an asset.
Nigeria’s radical gender inequality reflects a widespread tolerance of discrimination against girls, which facilitates the brutal actions of extremist groups like Boko Haram and creates fertile ground for traffickers.
Though landlocked, Ethiopia is comparatively well endowed with natural resources, not least its fertile farmland, which has attracted significant investment from Saudi Arabia, among others.
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