Sentence examples for building barrier from inspiring English sources

"There are plenty of grand strategies, including replanting native trees, getting rid of certain canals, allowing the Mississippi to take its natural course, building barrier islands etc.

Such a plan could include annexing Jewish settlements and building barriers between Israeli and Palestinian territories.

"For 12 years, authorities been building barriers and putting barbed wire here.

"Nationalism is all about building barriers between people, whatever the cost," he said.

"You can deter crime by ramping up the police, or by building barriers," he explained.

But adherents of minority faiths in Russia -- Catholics, Protestants, Muslims -- say building barriers is exactly what government officials have done, increasingly at the behest of the Orthodox Church.

In the north and south of Baghdad, Shias are digging trenches and building barriers to separate them from their Sunni neighbours, fearing imminent attacks.

Even when America tries to do something nice, such as building barriers to protect vulnerable districts of Baghdad, people seem to jeer at it (see article).

By building barriers between 'gay' and 'straight' communities, and forcing people to choose which fork in the road to take, we deny ourselves the opportunity of full sexual expression.

By Wednesday, when Sandy crossed the island of Jamaica as a Category 1 hurricane, carpenters were covering sidewalk subway grates with plastic sheeting and plywood and building barriers at the entrances of low-lying subway stations, mostly in Lower Manhattan.

In future it should be made clear that these extend to funds flowing not just to businesses but to non-profits too.Rich-country governments also need to avoid building barriers themselves.