Gaza s poverty was fertile ground for Islamic radicalism.

The latter provides fertile ground for corruption, extremism and organized crime.

As many of Lebanon s poorest are Shia, this provides fertile ground for Hezbollah recruiters.

More generally, construction materials and construction services seem to be fertile ground for cartel operators.

But make no mistake the ground for populist economics is becoming more fertile by the day.

Tourism thrives on a pristine environment, and it therefore provides fertile ground for testing innovative policies.

The anti Japanese hysteria of the 1980 s fell on fertile ground.

That has led to conflicts everywhere in the world. Injustice is a fertile ground for breeding violence.

The city's ideal combination of fertile ground and shallow waters attracted numerous traders.

Within both India and Pakistan, economic disparities and a sense of social injustice have created fertile ground for conflict.

Afghanistan's 'green zone', a stretch of fertile, cultivated ground along the Helmand River Valley.

There are also fears that the splintering of Dokubu s militias has created fertile ground in the Delta for Islamist groups.

The innocent, frustrated, and angry victims of austerity provide fertile ground for hate speech, xenophobia, and all forms of extremism.

We know there are associations between the two groups and there is fertile ground for these sinister relationships to flourish.

Hollande s plans for a growth initiative fall on fertile ground, especially in the European Parliament, which has repeatedly called for such measures.

This awareness of serving the greater good is very self inspiring and it creates fertile ground for compassion to grow in.

The history of Europe was full of examples of xenophobia and intolerance being propagated to create fertile ground for subsequent violence.

Indeed, since Hosni Mubarak s ouster last year, security in Sinai has deteriorated, and the region has become fertile ground for Islamic extremism.

Failure to engage in critical debates about Latin American democracy will surely provide fertile ground for reviving the authoritarian fantasies of the past.

Because of the long period of statelessness and isolation it experienced, Somalia may now have become a fertile breeding ground and haven for terrorists.

By that time, Mexican police institutions were in a state of decomposition, making them fertile ground for the drug traffickers to corrupt. And so they have.

Workers are either forced into the informal sector, where basic workplace protections are absent, or they become reliant on state handouts, creating fertile ground for populist politicians and criminals.

Aggressive separatism in the Republic of Moldova and Georgia has created fertile ground for the imperial ambitions of those who do not want our countries to be free and prosperous.

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).

However, we feel that success in eradicating that phenomenon requires that we deal with its underlying causes, including the social, economic and political aspects that provide a fertile breeding ground for terrorism.

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.

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.

The American occupiers of Iraq, through their policy of de Baathification, left Iraq without an army or a government, which proved to be fertile ground for Sunni insurgents, al Qaeda, and violent Shia groups.

This de facto surrender creates a fertile environment for despotism.

An openly anti euro political party has emerged, and, though it did not make it into the Bundestag in September s general election, it has fertile ground to grow.

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.

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.

Now converted into national parks, the area was once a fertile ground for hunting. The current Chitwan National Park was used as a royal hunting reserve from 1846 to 1951 by the Nepali Rana rulers and their guests.

This defiance reflects Boko Haram s strong position. 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.

It is in the midst of poor governance, ethnic and or religion tensions, as well as steep inequalities that lead to disenfranchisement, that violence and terror find fertile ground to grow and develop.

Hence the densely populated area is considered fertile soil for crime and social unrest.

Protectionist trade measures, perhaps in the form of a stiff US tariff on Chinese imports, would be profoundly self destructive, even absent the inevitable retaliatory measures. But make no mistake the ground for populist economics is becoming more fertile by the day.

Middle Ages The rapidly growing population of Europe and the rising concentrations of people in its towns and cities became a fertile ground for many infectious and contagious diseases, of which the Black Death a bacterial infection is probably the most notorious.

Despite the Russian Federation's commitment to playing the role of principal mediator in the settlement of the conflict in South Ossetia, it continues to arm separatists, thus providing a fertile ground for the illicit smuggling of arms, as well as for the proliferation of dangerous materials.

A high level of instability and conflict on the continent, coupled with the general state of underdevelopment, had created fertile ground for polarization, warlordism, terrorism and crime, all of which created the space for mercenaries and the services of PSCs, both to combat these phenomena and to perpetuate them.

For the resources of nature and men s devices are just as fertile and productive as they were.

Natural resources are plentiful, with vast amounts of fertile land.

Fertile is a city in Polk County, Minnesota, United States.

Most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (or steppes) and plateaus.

Since then, Mali Yang residents have reclaimed bushes for farming, but even so, those lands are not fertile enough.