Sentence examples for construction of fences from inspiring English sources

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Where elephants thrive, two other human interventions, the provision of artificial water and the construction of fences may have large, and perhaps unintended, impacts on elephant behavior.

Also today, on a ridgeline in the southeastern part of Jerusalem conquered by Israel in 1967, a backhoe that had been digging through the night under armed guard was giving way to the construction of fences.

The Attorney General, acting under the authority conferred in section 103(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act [8 U.S.C. 1103(b)] (as inserted by subsection (d)), shall promptly acquire such easements as may be necessary to carry out this subsection and shall commence construction of fences immediately following such acquisition (or conclusion of portions thereof).

We have seen, since the 1980s, an increase in military surveillance of the border, including not only the construction of fences and increase in state and civilian patrols, but most recently the rhetorical insistence that Mexico will be made to pay the construction of a wall across its whole northern border.

In addition to responding to natural or manmade disasters or for military protection of the population or critical infrastructure, state guard forces have been used to assist with immigration-related tasks on the US-Mexico border, including the construction of fences.

The NRA's "national school shield" proposal to prevent school shootings calls for the "hardening" of school sites with not only armed guards and armed teachers but also the elimination of trees, parking lots and some windows, and the construction of fences.

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Clinton supported the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which authorized the construction of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The first iteration of current fencing along the U.S.-Mexico took place during the 1990s where the administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton authorized the construction of fencing along the California-Mexico border.

Mr. Chertoff first used his waiver power, granted to him under the REAL ID Act of 2005, to speed the construction of fencing in 2005 on disputed land in San Diego.

Before the construction of fencing along large portions of the border in Arizona — similar to barriers also erected in parts of California and Texas — migrants were quick to simply slip through the border in Nogales, Ariz., Molina said.

In a lengthy Medium post published Friday, O'Rourke warned that Trump would promote "lies about the dangers that immigrants pose". He wrote that Trump would repeat his demands for a border wall and paint the city as a once perilous environment saved by the construction of fencing in 2008.

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