Sentence examples for man-made barriers from inspiring English sources

To achieve this objective liquid wastes are immobilized within glass matrices and are to be disposed of within deep geological repositories, made up of engineered and man-made barriers.

Can cartographical borders become man-made barriers?

Experts say that some of the contamination has been penned in by man-made barriers around the plant.

Some six hundred miles of that border is currently marked by man-made barriers, mostly chain-link steel fencing.

What the lions of the Los Angeles Basin need is new blood, but the man-made barriers around them make immigration unlikely.

"There's a lot of brush for it to burn and there's no natural or man-made barriers to stop it," he said.

Any channel through Kra would have created a watery, man-made barrier that cut off the ethnic-Malay, Muslim-dominated south of Thailand from the rest of the kingdom.

Now the state is conducting research that could lead to the construction of a man-made barrier that might cost billions of dollars to recreate what oysters did naturally.

"When I meet with a barrier — especially a man-made barrier like a wooden bridge with steps at the end — it gets me in the stomach," said Ms. Sieck, 58, an avid hiker before the disease sapped her ability to walk 12 years ago.

"I can't say I'm in favor of earmarks, because I always thought they were someone's favorite little pet projects," said Greg Piel, a vice president at the Commercial Plating Company here, whose family business had to be ringed with makeshift levies in 1993 after the river channeled under the man-made barrier into his parking lot.

Call it a "firebreak," the term firefighters use for a man-made barrier constructed to slow or stop the progress of a wildfire.