They were young conscripts, sir, making a token gesture. There was a roadblock.

Generally speaking, the religious order stood as a buffer between the political order and the common people.

I'm white, and that is a huge barrier on a Native reservation.

A robust third party force is a buffer between the parties and, also, between combatants and civilians.

It regarded the NPT as a key legal barrier to nuclear proliferation which made a critical contribution to international security.

Settlers blocked the road with rocks, thus preventing Arab cars from passing.

These obstacles now number 376, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Age should not be a barrier to a child's right to participate fully in the justice process.

Paperwork should not form a barrier between a good idea and the financing necessary to make it a reality.

Because, if you haven't noticed from my skin color, I'm white, and that is a huge barrier on a Native reservation.

There is also a suggestion that Israel will build a concrete barrier in the sea along the border between Gaza and Israel.

A lack of trained taxonomists is currently a major barrier to overcoming the lack of understanding of the biology of the high seas.6

The creation of a comprehensive monitoring mechanism should provide an effective barrier to the illegal trafficking in small arms and light weapons throughout the world.

General description The lack of reliable and affordable energy services in the rural areas of developing countries is a key barrier to their development.

These measures should guard against the cross border movement of all forms of value, including precious commodities, that could be used to finance terrorism.

But the insurgency is no barrier to China s use of Gwadar to project power in the Middle East and East Africa, and against peninsula India.

102. As regards the South African returnees, the prevailing economic climate in South Africa is a major obstacle to their smooth reintegration.

Small and medium enterprises also find it difficult to comply with the high standards set by international markets, including the increasingly stringent environmental and social standards.

The loss of services derived from ecosystems is a significant barrier to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty, hunger, and disease. (Living Beyond Our Means, p. 2)

Taken together, the factors form a quot glass ceiling quot , an invisible but impassable barrier that prevents women from rising professionally upward, regardless of their education and experience.

Subsequently, about 50 roadblocks were removed, making vehicular movement between districts easier in the northern and southern West Bank, but erratically constructed flying checkpoints , were still used.22

It reflects the belief that the lack of such information is a consistent barrier to the effective performance of the Council and a major handicap for United Nations Member States at large and the wider public.

The river runs 9 00 to 03 00, giving a natural barrier between Mawhinney and the enemy. a bank of mud at 12 00 protects them from small arms fire, and enables a clear field of vision.

His delegation had difficulty with the mention of the illegality of abortion in Chapter VII (para. 49). Illegality of abortion must not be perceived as a barrier to reproductive health.

I recall now the case of Talal Rushdie El Bakri who was killed by the settlers on 4 December 1993, when a group of settlers established a stone barrier in the middle of the public road.

Although this provides the necessary security buffer against the militias, it also allows for informal interaction between peacekeepers and the local population, creating an environment for exploitation and abuse to occur.

In Tajikistan the collective peace keeping forces are rightly perceived as a barrier preventing incendiary sparks from the continuing bloody civil war in neighbouring Afghanistan from carrying across our southern frontier, and they are particularly welcomed as a form of protection against acts of armed terrorism.

Significantly broaden distribution via retail and the Internet. Research indicates that not being able to find UNICEF products is a key barrier to purchase.

In South Kivu, members of the Congolese armed forces, the National Intelligence Agency and FDLR have erected over 40 roadblocks on several roads.

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Since the solid product forms at the interface between the two reactants, it can form a diffusion barrier and generally causes such reactions to proceed much more slowly than eutectic or eutectoid transformations.