Poor neighborhoods can be 'fertile soil' for crime. [=there is often a lot of crime in poor neighborhoods]
I had never set foot 'on Japanese/Italian soil' before. [=I had never been to Japan/Italy before]
Cleaning up contaminated 'soil' [=soil that has harmful chemicals in it] can be very costly.
(..) just saved my colleague's life. On the other, "Hubert Dreyfuss". A man with both feet planted firmly in the past who's bill prohibits the use of drones on US soil. The American people support the Dreyfuss act. Because they haven't experienced this technology. (..)2014 RoboCop