Sentence examples for firm barrier from inspiring English sources

While to the Taliban those conflicts are one fluid and sprawling war, the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan has long presented a firm barrier for the United States.

CVS Caremark, which this spring became one of seven pharmacy benefit managers handling Medicaid recipients' claims, said that its rates are competitive and there is a firm barrier between its benefit management program and CVS retail pharmacies.

In order to mitigate leaching of harmful Ni ions, we create a firm barrier layer on the surface by conducting oxygen plasma immersion ion implantation (PIII) into the porous structure.

She called this, along with not working late or talking too much about science, a manifestation of "Dutch smugness": taking pride in keeping a firm barrier between work and private life.

Rather than stifle positive collaboration with China, the policy and academic worlds should come together to set principles and best practices based on transparency, disclosure and firm barriers preventing undue pressure or influence.

Listen: I acknowledge that for some people – a significant portion of people, even – the army or navy or whatever is actually a very appealing, structured career path that can offer firm barriers to people whose lives perhaps lack them, and also can train you to run really fast while carrying a heavy backpack, which is a fundamentally useful skill.

While supporting massive, reversible importin-mediated cargo influx, FG/FxFG, GLFG or mixed hydrogels remained firm barriers towards inert objects that lacked nuclear transport signals.

But Taliban fighters — anyone, really — can cross and smuggle weapons and drugs, underscoring the challenge to the American war effort in Afghanistan, for which the border presents a much firmer barrier, as Pakistan does not allow NATO or American military forces to cross.

The inquiry has looked at issues such as the gap between the big four and mid-tier firms, barriers to entry and expansion for smaller firms, and cites the case of Arthur Andersen, which collapsed after it was implicated in the Enron scandal, as showing that size does not guarantee stability.

But if we think of the Resolute desk from an oceanic perspective, then that oaken paneling is not so firm a barrier.

Although East Greenland is only part of an island, we treated it as an island because only narrow strips of land disrupted by glaciers connect it to North and South Greenland, and the Inland Ice Sheet forms a firm dispersal barrier to West Greenland (Eidesen et al. 2013).