Sentence examples for built to separate from inspiring English sources

Belfast, too, has walls – in this case iron "peace walls", some almost 20ft high, built to separate nationalists and unionists.

The Zuiderzee persisted until 1932 when the Afsluitdijk or closing dyke was built to separate it from the North Sea.

A kestrel flickered along the prickly spine of the new fence built to separate the sheep from the trees.

They tore down the screens that, at the behest of the Social Purity League, the London County Council had built to separate prostitutes from potential clients.

It even raised fears among residents that a border fence would be built to separate them from Jerusalem, and that they and the Palestinian people would be left with their noses pressed against the slats -- so close and so far away.

If Obama takes the shortest route to Bethlehem by road, he will pass through the 24-foot-high concrete wall built to separate Israelis and Palestinians — a stark symbol of Israel's military occupation and the division of land that has occurred without a peace agreement.

"The city was built to be separate but equal under Jim Crow.

Inside, residents have built fences to separate their houses from the street, some girded with razor wire.

From now on, the regulators will make sure that the firms build "barriers" to separate their investment bankers from their stock analysts.

The $190 million access expressway being built to the airport is a separate project of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

Where the bottom wall has been blown out around its supporting concrete pillars, a crude barrier has been built, chest high to separate it from the busy street.