The phrase 'rising barriers' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe any situation that involves a growing obstruction to progress or success. For example, "Due to fears of the spread of infectious disease, many nations have put in place rising barriers to international travel."
China's interest in the region partly reflects rising barriers elsewhere.
Men and women and children would continue to cross rising barriers, traversing walls that separated them from resources, safety, and rights, building back-and-forth lives that no one could map.
But as this special report has argued, all Asian firms will be affected by a range of important trends: the impact of higher labour costs in China and ageing in East Asia; higher consumer expectations; the disruptive power of the internet; and the rising barriers to entry in many global industries as they become ever more concentrated.
A predictable result is a series of beggar-thy-neighbor exchange-rate policies, followed by rising trade barriers and the degradation of the entire global system.
But they face rising trade barriers in North America and Europe after President Bush's decision to impose protective tariffs on many kinds of steel.
Corus, formed by the 1999 merger of British Steel and Koninklijke Hoogovens of the Netherlands, has also suffered from rising trade barriers and weak global prices, but in its case, shifting exchange rates have made matters worse as the British pound has risen.
Or, sometimes, like in the Great Depression, both of these plus rising trade barriers lead to a contraction in economic growth.
For example, despite rising trade barriers, Mercosur's coefficient of imports from China keeps moving up.
In the vernacular of rights and opportunity, we often speak of ceilings: limits on how high a person can expect to rise before barriers intervene and everything beyond appears mysterious and obscure.
Known by the acronym MOSE — the Italian name for Moses, who mythically parted the Red Sea — it's an intricate engineering feat: whenever the tide rises, metal barriers that lie in concrete bunkers on the sea floor are lifted by compressed air pressure and pivoted into place on hinges.
Restricted diffusion of PM components across the furrow gives rise to barriers within the syncytial PM that may help shape morphogen gradients in the embryo (Mavrakis et al., 2009).
