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.
(..) street names "the rat" and "the butcher," who's known to hang out at a storage unit near Boerum Park, which has red soil, hence, the muddy red footprint on Morgenthau's counter. That's fine work, Detective. Thank you very much, sir. (..)2013 TvShow: Brooklyn Nine-Nine Title: Pilot Season: 1 Episode 1
(..) and take the White House back. I don't think you can. Posse Comitatus and the Insurrection Act... ...make it very difficult to deploy combat troops on American soil. Which is why we federalized the National Guard minutes ago. Sir, with respect, only the president can do that. Alvin, we're in (..)2013 White House Down
(..) Sweet and sour chicken. What do we got? Fuck you, Mars. Johanssen, Jesus. I have created square meters of soil. You take hydrogen, you add oxygen, you burn. Nothing bad has ever happened from lighting hydrogen (..)2015 The Martian