Sentence examples for erect to prevent from inspiring English sources

How long will they have to wait, and what barriers will lawmakers erect to prevent new immigrants from entering illegally and finding work?

Natterjacks are a protected species, so a fence has been erected to prevent stage invasions by unwary humans.

Czech officials said the waters of the Vltava river could reach critical levels in Prague and that special metal walls were being erected to prevent flooding.

If the human loss constantly threatened to engulf us, the holes where buildings once stood could at least be covered over; temporary walls of plywood, often painted blue, were flimsily erected to prevent people from falling in.

I think's it's fair to say we agreed that it would be fine for the government to provide funding to support public service journalism as long as a structure was erected to prevent it having any control over editorial content.

Much is also lost with the video version of "From the Other Side" (2002), in which 18 monitors mix interviews with people who live north and south of the Mexican-American border with laterally tracking town scenes and views of the fence erected to prevent illegal crossing.

In the village of Plavecký Štvrtok (a name that translates as Swimming Thursday) some 30 kilometres north of Bratislava, the capital, a series of walls and fences were erected to prevent Roma from a nearby settlement from passing through the village en route to buy groceries or visit a medical centre.

Fences were erected to prevent badgers feeding at bait points to which they had previously had unrestricted access.

Even as streams were being diverted, massive sea walls were erected to prevent the sea from encroaching on the narrow sandy littoral shielding the city from the most disastrous sea floods.

They packed into an overcrowded car and headed for Burundi, evading the stones and insults thrown at them and navigating the military barricades erected to prevent them from leaving.

The armed forces demanded that they disperse, saying that the military would erect barricades to prevent them from entering La Paz, but the warning appeared to have gone unheeded.