While some suspicion remains on both sides, today there is no formal barrier preventing a male Mormon from becoming a Freemason or vice versa.

For example, the formal barrier between officer and staff was largely broken down and replaced by a fierce loyalty.

This creates a formal barrier which will not place the candidate at ease.

Since the early 1990s, sexual identity presents no formal barrier in terms of soldiers' military specialization or eligibility for promotion.

Such formal barriers between the races have now disappeared, but not their legacy.

There was no quota or tariff or other formal barrier, but there was also no way they could get the business.

The Pavilion also serves as a formal barrier between the Zeumurray Garden and the Original Garden.

From this perspective, it makes little sense to fight to lower the formal barriers that block imports at the dock.

Even in the absence of formal barriers like tariffs, they argue, Japan's business relationships are set up in ways that make it difficult for outsiders to penetrate markets.

Poor people who are keen to find a secure job will always find a way around formal barriers in a country where corruption and personal connection tend to defeat state regulation.