Sentence examples for heavy barriers from inspiring English sources

The embassy is about 100 yards from the site of the explosion, but heavy barriers and blast walls protect it from the street.

Eventually, the police erected heavy barriers on the busy street in front of the embassy, and assigned more policemen to patrol the area.

Goldberg sees IDC as a pure play that has a core competency and heavy barriers to entry.

Elderly abuse sets an additional heavy barrier on the shoulders of older people: besides co-living with the ageing process and physical limitations that it entails, older people have to cope with the community abuse, which might further deteriorate their health status.

Doug Smith, 57, worked on a stimulus project this fall removing the heavy Jersey barriers dividing a stretch of Route 2 and preparing the road for new metal guardrails.

In a city already dotted with heavy concrete barriers aimed at deterring terrorism, some wondered what more could be done without sacrificing an open society.

Such targets, along with most government ministries, are far harder to strike now that they are surrounded by heavy concrete barriers, barbed wire and machine-gun nests manned around the clock.

But Horton, who helped Portland commissioner Amanda Fritz draft the language of the proposed 3% tax, believes the lack of people of color in legalized marijuana has to do with heavy regulation, barriers to accessing capital and gaps in the right information.

On the outskirts of Shifang, there was no sign of work at the smelter site, but a uniformed soldier stood near a heavy steel barrier painted in bright red and white.

The types of damage caused by tropical cyclones to the Great Barrier Reef is varied, including fragmentation, sediment plumes, and decreasing salinity following heavy rains (Cyclone Joy).

Beyond the razor wire and dirt-filled hesco barriers, heavy machinery could be seen reinforcing the American positions.