1.   Crews lowered boom barriers several feet high around the nearby ponds.

2.   Lowering the cost, yes, but also lowering the barriers that made them hard to use.

3.   Our nation needs to take a pragmatic approach to lowering trade barriers.

4.   And it comes after the two countries sparred over lowering trade barriers in the region.

5.   And it would lower the barriers against confining juveniles in adult facilities, a practice that we know increases youth suicides, rapes and beatings many times over.

6.   At the gathering, called the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, discussions of how to lower trade barriers or rein in global capital flows were scarcely heard Tuesday.

7.   A merged company would operate in an industry where global competition has intensified as countries have lowered access barriers to domestic telecommunication markets.

8.   But Cardoso and other Brazilian officials indicated they wished to move slowly in lowering some barriers to foreign competitors.

9.   But with NATO membership requiring decent standards of civil rights, the republics have lowered barriers to citizenship for ethnic Russians.

10.   Canada is a party to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which lowers trade barriers between Mexico, the United States and Canada.