Sentence examples for erected to keep from inspiring English sources

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.

No fences have been erected to keep the wind from whipping dust out into the street.

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

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

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

They will spend the Olympics behind walls or screens erected to keep their property out of public view.

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.

The wall is an administrative structure that a large securities firm erects to keep its trading operation shut off from the activities of its investment bankers, who routinely acquire a lot of inside information that would be illegal to use in buying and selling stocks.

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

The police have erected barriers to keep any protests far from the Olympic village or stadium.

In Fashloum, a rundown neighbourhood near the city centre, residents briefly erected barricades to keep out a brigade of Islamists, the Nuwassi, who claim to be an anti-vice squad.