Word: barriere
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...Success is not a shared feature of their struggle; it's too easy to opt for an extreme solution, to let one's inner life give way to silent partnership in other people's fantasies, or, worse, to protect against this kind of dissolution by erecting a rock-like barrier between oneself and the world--a barrier proofed against intrusions from the outside but powerless to subdue inner hurts. It is the various strategies women use to affect a compromise between their inner claims and the pressures of other peoples' fears and expectations which provide the unifying theme of Other...
Embargoes have seldom proved much of a barrier to the arms trade. Paris has readily ignored them, selling weapons to South Africa, Pakistan, India and Latin America when no other major exporter would. In the 1960s the U.S. tried to cool tensions in South Asia by restricting its arms
...result of Columbia's inaptitude. Harvard couldn't help but win. The Crimson took the lead from the opening tap, and steadily increased it throughout the contest, breaking the 100-points barrier for the 17th time to school history...
...some significant measure attain these ends. But it will never let these values, important as they are, override its central purpose. We value freedom of expression precisely because it provides a forum for the new, the provocative, the disturbing, and the unorthodox. Free speech is a barrier to the tyranny of authoritarian or even majority opinion as the rightness or wrongness of particular doctrines or thoughts...
Those were his values: socialism and common decency, the latter of which was a protection against any kind of cold barrier borne of sectarian fanaticism. Human beings were never means for him, politically or personally (as if one could separate the two); they were ends in themselves. His fervent belief in socialism was a faith in people. Nick always believed that he saw in people what Michael Harrington, one of his favorite authors, saw: the seed beneath the snow--in the midst of a grade-grubbing, money-chasing, selfish, banal society he saw individuals who wanted desperately to love, desperately...