colour bar BrE
color line AmE

They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years.

I will back myself to sleep against anyone in the world, no age, weight, or colour barred.

There must be no cheese colour bar in the European Community.

A colour bar on top indicates the amount of background each player has captured.

The ruling did not end the colour bar in some British hotels and other public establishments.

The formal elimination of colour bars made little difference.

There is a colour bar, that is for certain.

He could not contest any British championships owing to the colour bar then in operation.

Yet when the commission reported in 1910, it submitted draft regulations that were heavy with colour bars.

You're above the colour bar, being human.

Joe Louis had broken the colour bar.

They daily encountered 'colour bars' in employment, housing and pubs.

Then the opposition party'll get hold of that and raise hell about colour bars and so on.

Their idea of Christian gentleman did not include the brotherhood of man, if it meant lowering the colour bar.

This act legally established South Africa's employment "colour bar."

But here we have built a society with a colour bar as real as South Africa's, and worse because it is not admitted.

One transponder was reactivated in October 2005, but was carrying only colour bars.

Nor did it specifically and clearly give the government Mining Engineer powers to introduce a legal colour bar.

The Bristol Evening Post ran a series of articles in 1961 exposing this colour bar.

Hague, controversially at the time, did not believe in a 'Colour Bar' for boxing.

A book, Colour Bar, has been published about the Khamas' relationship and struggles.

So much for the image of vanished colour bars so assiduously put out for overseas consumption."

"At his weight," said the publican, "I'm behind him, I am, for twenty rounds, and no age, country, or colour barred."

"Across the Colour Bar"

The primary issue during the early years of the union was the practice of reserving skilled jobs for white employees, known as the industrial colour bar.

It may have looked that way on the white side of the color line.

In some places, on both sides of the color line, they run together.

It is history as viewed from the white side of the color line.

The Dodgers were, in fact, looking for the right man to break the color line.

Like so much else in American life, these conventions refuse to stop at the color line.

"The whole business of being working class cuts across color lines.

Color Line has roots in the ferry business that go back more than 100 years.

Violence did not stop at the color line either.

Finally, this game marked the end of pro football's color line.

It offers the opportunity for all students to break color lines, to learn about one another and end racism.

There are no color lines in the music business.

The crucial race question; or, Where and how shall the color line be drawn.

Never mind that Boston has a reputation for being a city divided along color lines.

We have learned to survive in a world that has no color lines."

He helped tighten the color line between blacks and whites in the state.

In their place came colored lines and even the suggestion of depth.

It is difficult to find an exact origin of the phrase "the color line".

Indeed, just how does one negotiate a color line that runs smack through the middle of a family?

The show was created especially for the cruise company Color Line.

They are joyous movies that float above the color line.

Robinson became the first player since 1880 to openly break the major league baseball color line.

They are now being published in paperback as well but still following the same colour line.

Six long colored lines, leading to an exit, had been placed on the floor.

Would the "cultural" arguments for the color line be tenable in court?

To the 36-year-old Waller, being first in baseball is important, but not for breaking the executive color line.