Sentence examples for a formidable fence from inspiring English sources

Israel, for its part, has just finished building a formidable fence, backed with fancy surveillance gear, along the entire length of its border with Egypt.

Now if the river alone fails to stop migrants there are patrol boats full of sophisticated detection equipment, foot patrols and sniffer dogs on the shore, and a formidable fence which was completed a few months ago at a cost of 20m euros (£17m).

The Grand National, four-and-a-half miles over 30 formidable fences, is as much a horseman's race as a jockey's; McCoy is certainly both.

The tape of Synchronised's last minutes, studied by equine psychologists, has been used by the race's critics as evidence that the horses have a deep-seated fear of its formidable fences.

For introduction, there is only a stylized and atmospheric hint of background, of shut high gates and formidable fencing, and this formal difference seems revolutionary enough to establish Mr. Welles' independence of the conventions.

But U.S. seizure data indicates that San Diego, the place with America's most formidable fencing, has become its principal gateway for hard drugs.

Less well known is that countries like Vietnam, diligent students of their northern neighbour, have erected their own formidable fences to free expression.

Some people complain that Glastonbury hasn't been the same since it introduced a formidable new security fence to thwart gatecrashers, and partnered with big-beast promoters Mean Fiddler in 2002.

A governor can be a formidable force.

India built the 341-mile fence along the disputed border between 2003 and 2004 to prevent the infiltration of militants, who used mountain passes to move back and forth between Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Indian-controlled-Kashmir. Motion censors and electrification in places make the fence a formidable deterrent for the militants.

These locked fences provided a formidable obstacle for mosquito control personnel to overcome for surveillance and treatment.