He piled the excavated earth to his right, to the east, like a high barrier between himself and home.

That, unfortunately, no longer seems like a very high barrier.

By the time the pile was built, they were on different sides of a high barrier.

You can't "work hard" or "save for the future" if there are no jobs and high barriers to small business creation.

People with money are trying to erect higher barriers, she says.

That's not exactly a higher barrier to getting geolocation information.

Whether Jones robbed her client or not, she would have faced a high barrier in court.

Thus the key to market power is to preclude competition through high barriers of entry.

The third stage occurs when the high barrier starts to lower.

And now more stone walls, even higher barriers, loomed just ahead.