Converse of object

• overcome: To help overcome these barriers TP Herts applied for an Innovation into Action Grant, which was awarded in June 2003.

• remove: ICT seen to remove barriers - or create barriers where inequalities of family income or school funding exist.

• erect: Chinese walls are the theoretical barriers erected between departments to try and avoid any such conflicts arising.

• lower: It may also facilitate technological progress, by reducing firms ' switching costs and so lowering barriers to entry and barriers to change.

• perceive: The ' Parent Know How ' campaign has been developed to break down some of the perceived barriers to asking for help.

• transcend: Hopefully, I'll be able to transcend language barriers with visual storytelling.

Adjective modifier

• non-tariff: Indeed, studies reveal no systematic relationship between a country's average level of tariff and non-tariff barriers and its subsequent economic growth rate.

• protective: Protective barriers to foster indigenous farming, for example, are not allowed; neither are subsidies to support poorer farmers.

• artificial: We would not want to see any artificial barriers placed in the way of appropriate recognition of new units of assessment.

Noun used with modifier

• tariff: That trend to world markets is irreversible unless the major economic powers set up trade and tariff barriers.

• species: Crossing of the species barriers in the wild is normally very rare.

• vapor: Even more importantly it also acts as a vapor barrier preventing condensation forming and steel rusting from within the inside.