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barbwire

[′bärb′wī·ər]

(materials)

barbed wire

barbed wire, barbwire

Two or more wires twisted together with sharp hooks or points (or a single wire furnished with barbs); used for fences.

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This sort of idle rumination about national perceptions and architecture may spring to mind if you find yourself at the Agial Gallery, which is nowadays displaying "Zinco, Barbwire and Freedom," an exhibition of work by 28-year-old Abdulrahman Katanani.

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I locked up the bike just in time to depart the road anyway, into a downward sloping hill, thankfully grassy, unthankfully culminating in a barbwire fence.

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We have vast amounts of money, energy, and talented people, all dedicated to putting someone in a concrete building behind barbwire fences, and then hoping it works.

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Hungary was one of the first countries to go its own way by setting up barbwire fences to protect its border and pass the refugees to its neighbours.

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The camp itself, with its barbwire and chimney and iconic train tracks, is a looming monument of horror, but even as they're standing on the collapsed roof of the former gas chamber, it should be clear to anyone that nothing in the 50-year-old remains of Auschwitz can prove that the Holocaust happened.

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and threw garbage at the barbwire fence erected outside the Grand Serail meant to keep away protesters from reaching the government headquarters.

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TV footage of Calais migrants trying at night to remove the barbwire separating them from the tunnel, or attempting to sneak into cargo trucks heading to England, is shocking.

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NNA - An Israeli infantry patrol backed by armored vehicles combed Jabal Siddaneh hills during which it brought down the Lebanese flag which the farms' owners and MP Kassem Hashem raised yesterday (Tuesday) on the border barbwire, National News Agency correspondent in Hasbayya said on Wednesday .

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The heifer junior champions, meanwhile, were Sandyford LR Bunty from A Rimmer in the Ayshire section; Eire Gammon Maime J from A Holliday and S Wake in the Jersey section; Riverdane Barbwire Advantageous Red, from Riverdane Holsteins, in the Red & Whites; Shaunlea Geri 6th, from Shaun Dixon, in the Shorthorns; Kedar Alaska from T Lochhead & Sons, in the Brown Swiss section; and Holmland Atwood Marie, from B Yates, in the Holsteins.

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But there are some wrinkles, he adds: "A 2,500-pound bull --a barbwire fence ain't going to hold him in.