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bord

  • v  prevent from entering; keep out
    He was barred from membership in the club
  • v  render unsuitable for passage
  • v  expel, as if by official decree
  • v  secure with, or as if with, bars
    He barred the door
  • s  preventing entry or exit or a course of action
    barred doors
  • s  marked with stripes or bands

  • She was barred from leaving her house to lead supporters on a "long march for democracy" from Lahore to Islamabad to protest the state of emergency declared by the president .
  • And in one of the iron-barred cages she sat, shorn of her power, glowering at the court officials, scowling at the Carabinierian old woman, with wrinkled skin, ferocious .
  • Federal investigators say planes like the American Eagle that crashed in Indiana last week should be temporarily barred from flying in conditions that could cause steering .
News & Articles

  • Logging underway at Bass Creek Recreation Area
    STEVENSVILLE – Barricades barred Larry Creek Road and the sound of heavy machinery filled the air at the Bass Creek Recreation Area Friday morning.
    June 17, 2013 - Ravalli Republic
  • Turkish police seal Istanbul’s Taksim Square from protesters
    Protesters barred after anti-government demonstration, while marches and strikes are discussed.
    June 16, 2013 - Washington Post
  • Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan banned from arguing he was defending the Taliban
    A military judge barred Army Maj. Nidal Hasan on Friday from arguing at his court-martial that he was legally acting to protect Taliban leaders when he killed 13 people injured 32 others in a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.Hasan, who's representing himself, has said the shootings were a premeditated "defense of others" to safeguard Mullah Mohammed Omar and other Taliban leaders in ...
    June 15, 2013 - NBC NEWS
Quotes

  • Charlie Crist in Sunshine State News
    Gay and lesbian Americans : are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives-unable to be there for the person they love, and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA Wall Street Journal http://www.google.com/url?q=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304510004575186893862169492.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG98PQH_nWrrP6lbONEN_lLC7St-Q Apr 15, 2010 8289 11690 barred Politics has nothing to do with this," said Crist. "This has everything to do with doing what's right for a place that I love. I love Florida. I know that it's already barred in the statutes."
  • Neil Warnock in ESPN
    I think Scudamore is an absolute disgrace,added Warnock. "I'd love to get him in a room on my own for an hour, no holds barred. If it was any other club, Scudamore would have made sure the facts came out. I find it amazing that he has kept...

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