Probably the chief barrier to the commission of crime is the feeling of right and wrong connected with the doing or not doing of particular acts.

He understood with just what a barrier of youthful reserve she would be likely to surround herself upon such a journey, but he understood also that barriers of reserve are not all the defences sometimes necessary for a girl who travels alone.

For nearly a hundred years the barriers that segregated us will have been a memory.

What a barrier, my dear sir, is difference of language to social intercourse!

His observations showed that the Barrier is not a continuous, abrupt ice wall, but is interrupted by bays and small channels.

The main highway was fenced off a short distance on either side of the broken bridge, but this barrier was of so frail a nature that it could not be expected to stop a runaway.

The barrier which Poland wants to construct between Germany and Russia is an absurdity which must be swept away at once.

The one barrier, there is no surmounting and no getting round, is the decided and increasing hostility of public sentiment; and for that the militants have only themselves to thank.

The Barrier was not more than 60 feet in height.

"Barriers are also supports," said Madame de Staël; and what more sure support in the decadence which threatens us, than a positive science deduced from irrefragable law!