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Barrier   /bˈæriər/  /bˈɛriər/   Listen
Barrier

noun
1.
A structure or object that impedes free movement.
2.
Any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective.  Synonym: roadblock.
3.
Anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access.



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"Barrier" Quotes from Famous Books



... has lately been the fashion to regard the language of the Priestly Code as an insuperable barrier to the destructive efforts of tendency criticism. But it is unfortunate that this veto of language is left as destitute of detailed proof, by Delitzsch, Riehm, and Dillmann, as the veto of critical analysis by Schrader; ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... Parliament was made the centre of intrigue, whereby it was expected to thwart the plans of the reformers, and throw legislation back a decade, but the torrent rushed along, with a spirit that broke through every barrier. Even the great Jew, Benjamin Disraeli, funked further evasion and opposition, after the memorable evening when Samuel Plimsoll electrified the House, and stirred up the nation, by charging the Prime Minister with the responsibility of proroguing Parliament in order ...
— Windjammers and Sea Tramps • Walter Runciman

... the distant hills, and beyond those stood the gigantic sharp-summited wall of the Pyrenees, its long ridge dominated by the cloven cone of the snow clad Pic du Midi. There was in the sight of that great barrier, at once natural and political, a sense of security for this fugitive from the perils and the hatreds that lurked in Spain beyond. Here in Bearn he was a king's guest, enjoying the hospitality of the great Castle of Pau, safe from the vindictive ...
— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini

... be a game Preserve, Alberta; Angoniland, Athi Plains, British Columbia, Budonga Forest, Duck Mountain, Elephant Marsh, Freycinet's Peninsula, Grand Canyon, Hargeis, Jubaland, Kangaroo Island, Little Barrier Island, Luangwa, Manitoba, Mirso, Nweru Marsh, Ontario, Pennsylvania State, Riding Mountain, Rustenburg, Sabi-Pongola, Snow Creek, Spruce Woods, Superior National Game, Swaziland, Teton, Toro, Turtle Mountain, Wichita, Wilson's Promontory Preserved ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

... Rear-Admiral Strauss, U.S.N., went out, and on the next, by the American and British squadrons together, he was in command of them both, on the San Francisco. The mine field on this occasion closed the western end of the barrier off the Orkneys, making it complete across. Of the ninth excursion Rear-Admiral Clinton-Baker, R.N., was in command. Altogether the American squadron made fifteen excursions, the British squadron eleven, and when the barrage was finished, at the end of October, 70,100 mines in all had been planted ...
— Our Navy in the War • Lawrence Perry


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