The phrase "a system of barriers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a structured arrangement of obstacles or restrictions that prevent movement or access.
Example: "The city implemented a system of barriers to control traffic flow and enhance pedestrian safety."
Alternatives: "a network of obstacles" or "a framework of restrictions".
Tim and Hallie have several favourite places just a short drive away, which they pointed out to me on a map: pretty 18th-century cobblestoned towns, bustling fishing ports and a system of barrier islands – the Ria Formosa – that stretches for 60 miles.
It is essential, however, to follow the multibarrier concept and to add a system of engineered barriers and drainage layers on top of the geologic barrier.
On Tuesday, after New York City felt the full brunt of superstorm Sandy, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the state was considering a system of surge barriers and levee systems, David and Mireya report.
Frye frequently compares male domination to a master/slave relationship (see, for example, 1983, 103 105), and she defines oppression as "a system of interrelated barriers and forces which reduce, immobilize, and mold people who belong to a certain group, and effect their subordination to another group (individually to individuals of the other group, and as a group, to that group)" (Frye 1983, 33).
A system of movable barriers that would rise from the sea bed to protect Venice from exceptionally high tides has been in the works for years but will not be operational before 2014.
To prevent passage of Asian carps into the Great Lakes via the CAWS, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operates a system of electric barriers in the CAWS.
This catastrophe galvanized the nation's political and social commitment to mounting and maintaining a sophisticated system of barriers that has set the standard for the rest of the world.
HERZLIYA, Israel — On the set here this week of Israel's most popular political television satire show, a character impersonating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood by a large map of the region as he drew a system of fences, spiked barriers and security doors around Israel's borders.
The Wilderness embayment, South Africa, contains a system of shore-parallel barriers reaching up to 200 m above modern sea level.
Ria Formosa The coast from Faro to almost the Spanish border is lined with a system of white sand barrier islands that protects the Ria Formosa, aptly named the "beautiful river", but really more of a tidal lagoon.
