Words can be used as bridges to understanding or as barriers to prevent understanding.
We need to erect appropriate barriers to prevent the entry of suicide bombers and other attackers.
Various types of hazardous wastes need engineered barriers to prevent outflow.
I saw security guards with automatic weapons, plenty of video cameras, barriers to prevent car bombs and truck bombs.
The carbonized structures act as physical barriers to prevent particle growth at elevated flame (or oxidation reaction) temperatures.
The new advertising platform will introduce technological barriers to prevent certain companies from significantly restricting their intended audience.
Barriers to prevent adhesion are seldom applied, despite their ability to reduce the severity of adhesion formation.
There were no barriers to prevent the van from driving right up to the 17-storey building that housed the Ministry of Justice and the prime minister's office.
But there are no insuperable cultural barriers to prevent them from getting there, and they constitute about four-fifths of the world's people.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he remembers synagogues and Jewish centers requiring identification from visitors and erecting barriers to prevent car bombers.
"New York City Transit will continue to strive to maintain the cleanliness of these protective barriers to prevent an unsightly appearance in the neighborhood," she wrote.
