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  • Since this barrier will keep raising the temperature until the barrier is broken, increasing the barrier's strength will get you any amount of internal heat you want. (if only that were true ...)

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • If Margolis 'account of the Copernican Revolution is correct, it provides another example of the nonlinearity of revolutions; for the developments that lead to a barrier's removal can be minor and, as in the case of Copernicus, even quite peripheral to the primary subject matter that they ultimately help to transform.

    Scientific Revolutions Nickles, Thomas 2009

  • Even though the Dow ended the week at just 8983, the 9000 barrier's been breached.

    What Goes Up. . . 2008

  • They all contain Palestinian farmland on the barrier's Israeli side.

    Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank 2008

  • Walk Like an Egyptian The Times of London reports on a barrier's falling in the Middle East:

    The Ex-Suspect 2008

  • The barrier's gates would close during extreme storms, blocking lake water from funneling up into this narrow canal.

    Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands 2008

  • The country's parliament speaker said the barrier's ultimate collapse proves that any regime's effort to isolate its citizens is doomed to failure.

    Today's WSJ in Photos: Aug. 13, 2008 2008

  • Mohammed Kamel, a former Iraqi soldier who now drives a taxi, on Bush's visit "The barrier's construction in the West Bank cannot ... be seen as anything but a deeply counterproductive act."

    Perspectives 2007

  • The book follows the lives of these friends, especially Tyler Dupree, the narrator, for many years as some of the barrier's mysteries are unraveled.

    Archive 2006-07-09 Bill Crider 2006

  • I can't mix around with them too much, the barrier's there.

    jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2002

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