Her commitment to fair wages and the barriers she will chip away to achieve them are fascinating to hear.
When I wasn't worrying about how to stop the water breaching my bodily barriers, I was fretting about catching pond life in the miniature drag net that is a swimming costume on an ample bosom.
It was a time of thrilling collisions that broke down the barriers between artforms.
Nick Clegg has removed one of the barriers to a second coalition deal with the Conservatives by refusing to veto an in-out referendum on European Union membership, and instead insisted that the Tories backtrack on their plans for £12bn of welfare cuts.
We need to lower the regulatory barriers to entry which have limited clinical benefits: right-touch regulation is regulation which is fit for purpose, with the minimum regulatory intervention to achieve the desired result.
Many students I've spoken to say their experience of sexual harassment was no worse on their placement than anywhere else – but language barriers heightened feelings of vulnerability.
The standoff was mostly peaceful, but police officers at one point scuffled with a protester who tried to push back their barriers.
Bit by bit, the GAA took down the barriers that protected the old exclusive attitudes.
Quite apart from the endless physical barriers, some of them quite newly installed despite the strictures of the Equalities Act, disabled people are often isolated by the embarrassment of the rest of us.
It seems madness that in 2014 such barriers and stereotypes still have to be challenged.
Charbel Aoun, senior vice president at Smart Schneider Electric, a huge cheerleader for smart cities, alongside companies like IBM and Microsoft said smart cities are happening, but not at the speed his company had hoped, due in part to the cultural and language barriers between those from the private and public sectors working on these projects.
