Some barriers may also be psychological and not physical in nature....In the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung a category killer may have a store in the northern part of town in the district called Nanzih and the management would name its outlet after the district: Nanzih Store....It is better to give the store a neutral name like Lotus Flower Store, than to name it after the district, which may create a psychological barrier.

We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now

The force composition of the two PLA concentrations—on the Dongshan-Nan'ao Islands area at the southern end of the Strait and Haitan Island at the northern end-reflected their assigned missions dealing with achievement of air and sea superiority and amphibious assault.

In the practice of music it becomes almost a necessity to agree upon some fixed system of interval measurement in order to clearly and economically define the notation, and the claviature of instruments. This confers an appearance of false simplicity upon tonal procedure, but it enables (in the same way as squared paper does with curves) the highly variable system of tonality to be represented in great generality with a limited number of fixed tones.