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Unlike many other animals, female tsetse flies can remain fertile throughout their lifetime.
A 42-year dictatorship does not exactly provide fertile ground for the learning and experience needed to create an impartial court.
As a recent US State Department report points out, Nigerian citizens’ “grievances regarding poverty, government and security-force corruption, and police impunity and brutality [have] created a fertile ground for recruiting Boko Haram members.”
Its catalogue of crimes includes: stealing the 2002 elections that enabled Mugabe to hold on to power; torturing and murdering supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change; transformation of a fertile, prosperous country once considered Africa's breadbasket into a place where half the population barely survives on foreign food handouts; and, as exemplified by its attacks on The Daily News , the suppression of critical voices.
Throughout the developing world, farmers are expanding areas of cultivation in an endless quest for fertile soil.
The erosion of civics education in schools, the shuttering of local newspapers – and the consequent decline in the public’s understanding of issues and the political process – conspire to create fertile ground for the sowing of disinformation.
Anti-European political parties are finding fertile ground among electorates that are unwilling to turn over more of their national sovereignty to Brussels (and in some cases are seeking to take it back).
Nobody knows what vision of collective defense is to be implemented: one needs a fertile imagination to imagine Belarusian paratroopers defending the Tajik border.
In the longer term, as Europe becomes increasingly fertile ground for digital content and applications, this infrastructure will enable Europeans to distribute their creations globally.
Economic deterioration in Bangladesh would only worsen inter-communal tensions and provide a fertile breeding ground for jihadis, but the reforms needed to head off decline are often blocked by political infighting and opposition boycotts.
Of course, we could argue that disasters like this are one-offs, and even believe that they may be peculiar to Italy – a country where infrastructure projects are often fertile ground for corruption.
Is Europe “a grandmother, no longer fertile and vibrant,” as Pope Francis put it when he addressed the European Parliament last November?
And so as new people arrive, food is produced on less fertile, more fragile land.
Melting polar ice will cause rising seas to inundate low-lying fertile delta regions on which hundreds of millions of people grow their food.
A particularly attractive feature is the prevalence of the severe Wahhabi religious dogma, which was exported to Yemen by Saudi Arabia but now provides fertile ground for recruiting disaffected young Yemeni men for assaults on Saudi Arabia.
Natural resources are plentiful, with vast amounts of fertile land.
Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, and soon perhaps other countries in the region will serve as fertile grounds for a new, more militarily oriented Al Qaeda, which will become a more powerful factor in the Middle East’s cacophony of interests and ideologies.
Poland today is also fertile ground for anti-immigrant rhetoric, which breeds on a nostalgic desire to retreat into national borders in a way that has eluded the country for many years.
Though nationalist politics was long suppressed after World War II by economic prosperity and memories of pre-war horrors, Europe offers fertile ground for its revival.
In Latin America, however, rigid class divisions and deep income inequalities created fertile ground for populism.
This combination of environmental and economic degradation has created fertile conditions for murderous Islamist movements, including Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Shabaab in Somalia and Kenya, and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Rapid population growth in countries where the environment is already failing to meet people’s needs, and where economies show scant signs of creating new employment opportunities, provides a fertile ground for fanaticism.
Prior to the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq’s secular-leaning character led many to believe that the country was fertile ground for democratization.
Lastly, France arguably has one of the world’s most favorable natural environments, with fertile soil and an exceptionally temperate climate.
High population density provides fertile ground for any virus, let alone Ebola.
Latin America in the first decade of this century was fertile ground for left-wing populism, especially in the eight member states of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA).
This perception has created fertile ground for terrorist recruiters;Tunisia has sent more jihadis than any other country to fight in Syria and Iraq.
But make no mistake: the ground for populist economics is becoming more fertile by the day.
This has created fertile ground for anti-immigrant populists and Islamist terrorists alike.
The IOC and its partners have a history of ignoring the perils that arise from the relationship between coaches and the young athletes they train – a relationship that has provided fertile ground for manipulation and abuse.
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