• About a tenth of it, so far, consists of an eight-metre-high concrete wall which in some places divides Palestinian communities, bars children from their former schools and cuts off farmers from their land, which continues to be confiscated for security and settlement-expansion.

    ECONOMIST: Palestine

  • ConEd officials Tuesday showed a 5-foot tall concrete wall now standing in front of a structure that housed signal equipment, which was flooded during the storm.

    WSJ: ConEd Storm Plan to Cost $1 Billion

  • Back when he was just a contractor in Saudi Arabia, he is said to have impressed impatient royal clients by wheeling in giant jet engines to blow-dry a concrete wall.

    ECONOMIST: For now, at least

  • But GFP is a concrete wall of a molecule--it curves around itself such that there is no place for an enzyme to bind.

    FORBES: Research

  • Behind the complex veil is a surprisingly simple reinforced-concrete box with a standard window wall and a conventional plan.

    WSJ: Cooper Union's New Building, at 41 Cooper Square | By WSJ Architecture Critic Ada Louis Huxtable

  • After rescuers cut a window-size opening in the concrete wall, Chatman climbed in to help apply the soapy substance.

    NPR: Rescuers Free Woman Wedged Between 2 Buildings

  • The rest of it - the five watchtowers, concrete perimeter wall, 57 concrete 'kiosks' (which stored the nuclear warheads) and other testing and maintenance buildings - have deteriorated and the 'scheduled monument' has now been put on the at-risk register by English Heritage.

    BBC: The battle to save England's heritage

  • They have speeded the construction of a vast concrete wall along Israel's 240-km (150-mile) border with Egypt and deployed another brigade to patrol it.

    ECONOMIST: Israel and the Islamists

  • To combat the surge in storms and waves, the government has built what locals call the Great Wall of Male: a concrete barrier 1.8-metre (6 ft) high that partly rings the capital.

    ECONOMIST: Letter from Maldives

  • The trick, if you can call it that, lies in the prefabrication of steel-and-concrete blocks that can be hoisted into position, just as bricks form a wall.

    FORBES: China To Erect Tallest Skyscraper In 90 Days? Not So Fast

  • The Dragons had a fright early on when wing Justin Murphy smashed over the perimeter wall and landed awkwardly on some concrete steps after running into the in-goal area to chase a kick through.

    BBC: Wigan 30-0 Catalans

  • He remarked that "one of the saddest sights for me during my visit to these lands was the wall" -- a reference to the 20-foot concrete barrier he saw in Bethlehem during his visit to a Palestinian refugee camp.

    CNN: Pope urges Israelis, Palestinians: 'No more war!'

  • The barbed-wire and barricades that surround coalition facilities were eschewed, in favour of a plain concrete wall.

    ECONOMIST: The Iraqi bombs

  • The ugly barrier, reminiscent in places of the Berlin Wall (about 7% of it so far consists of nine-metre high concrete slabs), has attracted international condemnation.

    ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestine

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