The way she speaks about the E6, a multilane highway, brings to mind some kind of moat, an impassable barrier that will keep out the past.
However, Iraq is not Afghanistan -- these tribes are not miniature armies, and the Sunni Triangle is not surrounded by impassable mountains that make policing almost impossible.
As steady rain washed eastern Long Island all day Monday, melting snow into impassable puddles that worsened the already abysmal driving conditions, parents found themselves baby-sitting as schools throughout the region were closed.
Faced with impassable snowdrifts that had brought much of the city to a halt, Logan Millard was willing to resort to anything to clear the walkway at Penrose Square, the apartment building he helps manage in Arlington, Va.
All the same, we seem to have got to a stage in the world's history where at every point we are brought up against "human nature" as an impassable wall that prevents us taking obvious measures to save ourselves from destruction.
Most of Carabane is covered in mangroves, forming an impassable jungle that can only be crossed in constructed passages.
Many people pride themselves on being distrustful, on building up impassable walls that only one or two people in their lifetime will manage to break through.
Knowing that a certain alleyway is impassable or that an intersection includes restrictions like 'no left turns' will let it better allocate cars to carpoolers, or just give riders a better idea of when to be ready.
In the same broadcast, Wu Yong, an officer in the Chinese Army, said that the road to the airport was impassable and that soldiers were digging people out from collapsed homes by hand.
