The waist-high barrier which has limited public access since 1981 was - doubtless correctly - judged to be too flimsy to block a suicide mission.

Sand-filled oil drums, waist-high barriers, metal gates and single strips of barbed wire have given way to a new infrastructure along the Tigris River.

He then scaled a waist-high barrier, clambered over some shrubbery and crossed a 12-foot moat.

Her knees wobbled and she sagged heavily to the right, clutching at the waist-high barrier that separated the Cascade Café from the walkway.

The bottom floor of the house formed a graceful U-shaped flow of half-open rooms separated by waist-high barriers and flower-filled planters.

Lord Ashford's carpenters were whitewashing the waist-high wooden barriers that would separate the jousters.

We walked a loop past odd yellow picket-fenced enclosures, and waist-high barriers that hid modest altars in a sort of inner square.

Unable to see, she edged her way into the crowd until she was wedged against the waist-high barrier to the street.

Abruptly the walls had become solid, and waist-high barriers had risen before each of the composite figures.

The public had to stand behind a waist-high, clear plastic barrier, slid into brackets on the doorframe where Anna stood.