Sentence examples for erect to keep from inspiring English sources

It was a strange experience, rereading "Emily of Deep Valley," picturing Emily Webster arguing in front of a Minnesota school board that the Syrian immigrants should be valued as part of their town, and thinking about the legal border that the current Administration has tried to erect to keep Syrians out, while they face inhumane danger in their home country.

There are more watchtowers, more guards and 20-foot concrete blast walls – the kind of walls you erect to keep the doors open.

Many of the current plans for adapting to global warming, for example, involve the erection of dikes to hold back water, while networks of dams have been erected to keep cities from going dry.

The Soviet-liberation monument was defaced so often that a fence had to be erected to keep vandals away.

Some people stood in front of the gates erected to keep people out, posing for photographs as best they could.

Tigers had attacked his cattle shortly afterwards, despite the fence he had erected to keep them out, he told Xinhua.

Mr. Wrinn watched intently as the backhoe operator maneuvered a giant claw under the roofing his men had erected to keep rainwater out of the trench.

And after working through the night, gleeful protesters partially tore down a wall of concrete blocks that the military had erected to keep them from the Interior Ministry.

Downtown streets were bisected in several places by stone walls and barbed wire barriers that the military had erected to keep protesters from security forces and government buildings.

This "debris fence" was erected to keep tourists from dropping things — including, at one point, bowling balls — on other tourists below.

He put hundreds of thousands to work building the Great Wall, starting with smaller defensive barriers already erected to keep out nomadic tribes.