Macey had ambitions to be the first man over the magical barrier himself and was due to compete in Goetzis before injury forced his withdrawal.
Bekele and a fellow Ethiopian, Haile Gebrselassie, are widely considered the greatest distance runners in history, and Pitsiladis had enlisted Bekele for his project, not for him to break the two-hour barrier himself but, through training and tests, to better understand what it might take.
The double translation creates a barrier between himself and his tourists, Mr. Aykac said.
"Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public," observed Mr Boorstin.
He knew his worth, but he did not make that a barrier between himself and life or let it dampen his curiosity.
"He barely speaks any Hebrew, a fact which creates a barrier between himself and both his co-workers and his voters," Last continued.
Certainly there is much humor in Burt and his quaint affectations, since he uses them so absurdly as a barrier between himself and the modern world.
And if he escapes them all and finds himself one-on-one against the goalkeeper, his club captain, Iker Casillas, will be the last, redoubtable, barrier between himself and a goal.
Using the game's tabular data and complex rules as intently as a fantasy-baseball addict, Alton puts up a final barrier between himself and adulthood; Trapp approaches from the opposite direction, reliving his glory days.
Ahead of the trip to the Santiago Bernabeu, Neville, who works alongside his brother and assistant manager Phil at the Mestalla, also revealed that he has found the language barrier between himself and his players to be the most difficult obstacle to overcome.
Anyone satirising Hollywood runs the risk of such infection, but surrounded with his usual team of collaborators (cinematographer Peter Suschitzky, composer Howard Shore etc), the Canadian Cronenberg maintains a protective barrier between himself and his subject – slicing into its body like a surgeon with a scalpel, laying bare the great malignancy that lurks beneath its pallid, ghastly skin.
