1.   Farmers, especially in the more fertile areas have resisted efforts to place controls on their practices.

2.   In this country, the plains states and the Southwest are fertile areas for a wide variety of game breeding.

3.   Las Vegas, capital of sin, hope and desperation in this country, is a fertile area for passengers.

4.   Although the brewery is the major mechanized industry, the town lies in a fertile farming area and many townspeople work in the fields and in vegetable packaging.

5.   But a tree could be growing slower than the average tree, or it could be planted in a fertile area and growing faster than the average tree.

6.   But Michael Moe, who follows trends in for-profit education for Lehman Brothers in New York said education was a fertile area for investors.

7.   Fertile area for speculation, no doubt, but leading only to a further question.

8.   In fertile areas every inch of space was used.

9.   It is in the Great Rift Valley to the southwest of Lake Turkana, a fertile area for hominid fossils.

10.   New England is a particularly fertile area for palate-comforting brews, as one might expect of a region where winter is often nasty.