How To Use Bollard In A Sentence
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The town hall lost two bollards and a litter bin, railings, and a large stone pedestal has been cracked.
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On an ancient stone stump, about three feet thick and three feet high, used for securing ships by ropes to the shore, and called a bollard or holdfast, an elderly gentleman sits facing the land with his head bowed and his face in his hands, sobbing.
Back to Methuselah
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The bollards at each end have been successful in keeping out vehicles, without impeding the passage of bicycles, prams etc.
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The only apparent purpose of these bollards is to prevent vehicles overtaking.
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Successfully managed to crash the car by scraping the side along some concrete bollards.
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A MAN has had his driveway blocked by concrete bollards in a dispute over parking.
The Sun
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These tests involve ordering the driver to walk in a straight line, touch their nose or walk round traffic cones or bollards.
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He parked alongside some piles of pallets stacked on the quayside which were very close to the bollards to which the starboard mooring lines were secured.
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More than 1,500 trees will be planted and concrete bollards will be strewn throughout the area.
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In places it is punctured by bollards and peeled back to form benches, revealing glazed voids packed with multi-coloured fluorescent tubes that scintillate seductively with kaleidoscopic light.
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Other key features such as bollards and companionways are still visible and rumour has it the engine room can still be penetrated.
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Pairs of bollards are mounted on thick steel plates and are consequently found together even after the rest of the wreck is just a pile of scrap.
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The perpetrators likely had ties to organized crime, according to Ulrich Boser, author of "The Gardner Heist," who says most art thieves are common crooks -- the class of criminal who would probably be flummoxed by Washington's high-profile museums, which are fortresslike and ringed by bollards.
Heist-proof museums? U.S. buildings aided by design, location
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Still attached, the 12 - pounder anti-aircraft gun rests on the seabed with its barrel nestling between a pair of bollards.
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Bollards look unsightly with their paints all chipped off.
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We planned to cut ice bollards and ice threads to save our precious supply of abseil gear.
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The absence of litter, graffiti and weeds was commended, but the street furniture, bollards, seating and railings would benefit from fresh painting and staining, they said.
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Fresh white paint on wooden bollards linked by a grey chain circling a flagpole.
WHITE LIES
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A bollard trying to grow a beard.
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He is featured on the cover, placing a line around a bollard as a ship enters port at Newport Naval Base.
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Hutton Mount Limited reported the removal of the horizontal barrier in a recent newsletter and said the bollards and uprights were to remain standing as a ‘very effective speed restriction’.
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Recent articles and letters suggest a bollard is not a popular proposal in the Straylands area.
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The restaurant decor is decidedly nautical, with decking, bollards and rope along the front, portholes here and there and even the binnacle from the M / S Vestkysten, an old Danish rescue ship.
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The Hispania is a majestic sight, and lying on the roof of the aft deckhouse the whole stern can be viewed, complete with railings, alternate steering gear and mooring bollards.
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Above the bow, to the port side of the wreck, debris from the deck includes a pair of mooring bollards and a small crane that would have been used to service the anchors.
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Other features of the scheme include new on-street parking bays, new and updated benches, bins and bollards and new trees with uplighters.
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The first Quay slabs were cast in August and fitting of bollards and fenders along the Quay Wall are proceeding.
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I've put myself directly in front of a concrete bollard at the end of the rank and there is no way he can run me down if I side step behind it.
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We planned to cut ice bollards and ice threads to save our precious supply of abseil gear.
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A paramedic was taken to hospital suffering from whiplash when his ambulance hit the ‘intelligent’ rising bollard in Stonebow.
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The sinking occurred because somebody cut each of the vessel's eight mooring ropes by which she was attached to two shoreside bollards.
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» Dept. of Funny Signs (and cool infrastructure): automated bollard in Delft • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
» Dept. of Funny Signs (and cool infrastructure): automated bollard in Delft • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
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Overgrown hedges, bollards, café chairs and holes in the pavement are just some of the problems faced by the visually impaired.
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There's also line-tossing, where deckhands are timed lassoing a bollard on a pier from an approaching tug.
A Harbor's Ugly Ducklings Can't Resist the Tug of Speed
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Despite a thaw in the weather, the road remained closed until the signs and bollards were removed and dumped at the roadside.
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Staying on the south-west side of the gully, the wreckage begins to thin out near a pair of bollards at a depth of 18m.
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We made a triangle with our eyes: me looking mournfully at Leo, Leo scrutinising the man in the denim jacket, the man watching me, leaning on a concrete bollard and chewing gum.
That Saturday
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Chief celebrant was new Parish Priest Fr. Dan Bollard, assisted by Fr. Farrell and Fr. Purcell.
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In addition to the bollards, the exterior concrete wall has been hardened and the windows have been designed to resist blast loads.
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The next hour was spent in shoving and pulling at slippery black bodies in a darkness only less black, in tripping over hawsers and barking our shins on crates and bollards.
Try Anything Twice
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Forward of the rails is a large single bollard, or capstan, and various small deck fittings and valve openings that are home to tompot blennies.
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Judging his distance the anchorman crouched, then leapt onto the jetty, wrapping his rope round a bollard while the oarsmen backed water.
A TIME OF WAR
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Earlier this year, yobs plunged the pathway into darkness by attacking lighting bollards.
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Bollards are prone to sudden collapse, and the ropes often jam in the groove behind the capstan during retrieval.
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He escaped by driving into Fountayne Street between the bollards situated to prevent such a manoeuvre, but was arrested ten days later.
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Other features of the scheme include new on-street parking bays, new and updated benches, bins and bollards and new trees with uplighters.
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If the term ‘mooring’ is used to include a berth alongside then the gear which comprises the mooring - the bollards, bitts and rings, are in the case of St Peter's Quay, all on private property.
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Sabriel threw up a line, but before she could leap ashore and secure it to a bollard, a street urchin did it for her.
SABRIEL
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Although tilted on one side, the deck is recognisable from bollards and railings.
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Nine steel bollards, usually used to support the hulls of ships, blockade the yard's entrance.
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They and police want to install moving bollards to prevent motorists from driving along the pedestrianised route.
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Interesting features along the edge of the deck include a hoist and pulley, a huge pair of bollards and similarly sized deck cleats.
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He said Mr Rhodes had not anticipated the traffic bollard in the middle of the road and had lost control after being forced to make a harsh steering manoeuvre.
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They want speed humps and bollards fitted in the area to prevent problems with cars failing to complete the right-hand turn from Tunbridge Road to Tickfield Avenue.
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He further points out that parking on footpaths is somewhat of a nuisance in some areas of the town and suggests the use of bollards in some sensitive areas would prevent this.
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Last year, the bollard hit the news again when it was plagued by intermittent mechanical problems and a new motor was fitted.
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They asked for new bollards, for footpaths, for ramps - and for the grass to be cut regularly and properly.
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More than 200 residents have already been issued with special electronic passes to ensure they will be able to raise and lower the two bollards upon leaving or entering the area.
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She could not confirm whether cameras were snaring drivers flouting the law in the absence of the bollard.
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They verbally abuse her calling her a P**i for nudging one of them off his bollard as she crosses the road.
Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Ascending the starboard side of the stern, there are no nets and it is safe to venture a little further forward to meet the deck near a small pair of mooring bollards.
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Wilf gave up his efforts to secure the towline, leaned against the starboard bollard and grinned with enjoyment as he sat there watching his grandfather, who was used to doing things his own way, fume impotently.
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Motorway bollards were due to be removed at one thirty for the first customers to stream in.
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The entire length of rope unwound directly from the reel or 'bollard' of the first launch, and the line of a second boat was attached forthwith; a third and a fourth were annexed, but the whale exhibited no sign of exhaustion, and dragged his pursuers like the wind.
Tales of the Chesapeake
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All of the cast iron traffic bollards in the town centre are also getting a bright new look.
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Rising bollards, bus-priority traffic lights and redesigned kerbs, which match the height of lowering buses, will be phased in.
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Photographs and film both show manila rope still neatly stowed about the ship's mooring bollards.
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Towards the edge of the deck are a pair of mooring bollards and a fairlead.
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Steps have already been taken to try and reduce the number of vehicles driving on the surface, with the placement of new bollards restricting the entrance of heavy vans entering the town.
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An orange squirrelfish flashed its spiny fins as it darted behind a bollard.
See-Worthy
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The wooden decking is still reasonably intact, though crowded with fittings to support the ship's boats and bollards for securing the boats.
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On Monday a man was taken to hospital with facial injuries and whiplash after the bollard rose in front of his car.
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The vehicle was travelling towards Whitefield when it struck a traffic bollard, hit a parked car and rebounded into the shop front.
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The council spent money cleaning up the land, putting in bollards to prevent vehicles going on to the foreshore, and removing abandoned vehicles.
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Towards the edge of the deck are a pair of mooring bollards and a fairlead.
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Cross Street, off Victoria Road, had been turned into a dumping ground for temporary road signs, cones, bollards, and even an electrical generator.
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Additional bollards may be located alongside the holds, just forward and aft of the amidships superstructure.
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Staying on the south-west side of the gully, the wreckage begins to thin out near a pair of bollards at a depth of 18m.
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Heading back from the bow past three pairs of bollards, the area of deck that would have held the anchor capstans has been cut open to leave a wide hole down into the forecastle.
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the road was closed to vehicular traffic with bollards
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On her left was an intersection - a bollard... Muzziness enveloped her.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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The stern deck itself has a big capstan in the centre, with pairs of small bollards on either side.
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They used a traffic bollard to smash six windows.
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Although Jim cycling into a bollard was a highlight.
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In California, West Hollywood is employing the same type of antiterrorism bollards as used by the federal government to stop car bombers.
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The bow is impressive and very photogenic, with the exposed starboard anchor still housed and its hawser and mooring bollards easily distinguishable.
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In a time shorter than it takes to tell it, the two doomed men are made fast to the stanchioned chairs; where they sit bolt upright, firm as bollard heads.
The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
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They could install collapsible bollards in the doorway which could be raised at night, but roller shutters - absolutely not.
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A car accident on the road leading to Tarn Hows earlier this month led to police placing an accident notice, four bollards and highly-visible blue and white police tape.
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Several of the larger locks have floating bollards that you place one of your lines around as you stand amidships on your boat.
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Thicker hawsers followed, and it took no more than a few minutes to wrap them around the mooring bollards.
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These mark individual parking spaces and the metal bollards are to prevent vehicles parking on the footpath.
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Our streets are too cluttered with unnecessary rubbish, be it signage, bollards or railings.
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All kerbs, bollards and barriers will be swept away, and cars and people will mingle unrestrictedly on what is intended to become a glamorous new boulevard, adorned with fountains and sculptures.
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Vangelis travelled ashore by pulling on the rope attached to the shore bollard and returned by pulling on the rope attached to the ferry.
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But even this global giant has to listen up, at the annual stakeholders’ meeting, to elderly dowagers complaining that the new parking bollards installed by the consortium clash horribly with their bourgainvillea.
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Precast quay panels are nearing completion and the new bollards for tying up ships and fenders are visible from the waterfront.
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Working away from the shot we passed over an area of recognisable decking before taking a belay off a mooring bollard.
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There's also line-tossing, where deckhands are timed lassoing a bollard on a pier from an approaching tug.
A Harbor's Ugly Ducklings Can't Resist the Tug of Speed
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He'd cried out before he realized what the obstruction was: a pile of bollards.
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I love it that there is a word like “bollard” — it sounds ridiculous and ponderous and silly all at once.
On Penelope Fitzgerald « Tales from the Reading Room
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We are confident that when this motion comes before the Council for debate, that it will be carried and these obstructive bollards will be removed once and for all.
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Forward of the holds are the usual pairs of mooring bollards on solid steel plates, deck planking rotting around them.
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Sensors and cameras were installed so that taxis, buses and emergency vehicle could continue driving through, while the bollard would rise to prevent unauthorised vehicles.
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But car drivers say they were not consulted properly and signs and bollards were not clear enough.
The Sun
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Following discussions with the contractor, new brighter bollards will this week replace the old ones.
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Bitts and bollards, by the way, are for tying rope around, not redirecting it.
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They suggest that it should either be banned or children taking part should be made to wear crash helmets, protective gloves, and use slopes free of trees, posts, or bollards.
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Before the bows are the remains of another mast and port and starboard pairs of bollards.
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As you near the stern, a large iron cleat or fairlead lies diagonally across the wreck, followed by a pair of bollards slightly to the port side.
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bollard," a piece of timber near the stern of the boat.
Peter the Whaler
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Another option looked at was using signal controls on radial routes and bollards on residential rat-runs to control the amount of traffic on the inner ring road.
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One later said later it was like being in a rally car as Stubbs entered a roundabout at speed and skidded into a traffic bollard, demolishing it.
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A 57-year-old woman was taken to hospital on Thursday with fractures to her face and ribs and internal injuries after what police described as a "bucket-sized" concrete bollard hit the car she was travelling in with husband, who was driving at the time and suffered minor cuts and bruises.
Fresh concrete block report leads to partial closure of A12
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The famous security bollards and barriers will be removed.
Times, Sunday Times
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As you come to the stern, you'll see a metal structure that was once the deck roofing; bollards and mooring cables, airducts and a winch are still clearly visible.
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You will note mooring bollards and a single capstan with a large winch further behind, and are likely to come across an enormous edible crab which has been there for quite a while.
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On the approach of the officer there was no challenge, so to find the reason of this the officer climbed up the ladder and found the sentry, who explained he had seen something "right enuff," but thought it was "one of them things they tie ships to" -- in other words a bollard.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
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Review boards have been sending the Park Service back to the drawing board to restudy their plan since 2002, and the bollards will be much less conspicuous as a result.
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Cecil Jarvis moving back from the for'ard bollard and winch, his carabiner snagging on something.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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In January this year, a paramedic was taken to hospital with whiplash when his ambulance hit the bollard as the vehicle sped to a 999 call.
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In places it is punctured by bollards and peeled back to form benches, revealing glazed voids packed with multi-coloured fluorescent tubes that scintillate seductively with kaleidoscopic light.
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Neither the cast iron bollard, nor the porthole that he unbolted were really much use in his whare on the farm, but both souvenirs went with him when he left, and on his later moves.
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Extra staff have been drafted in to carry out fortnightly checks on all street lights, traffic signs and bollards for correct operation.
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The wires in the ice took the strain (lashings at mizen chains carried away) and carried away fair – lead bollard on port side of forecastle head.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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The bollards and uprights have been left in place to curb the speed of traffic and discourage the use of the road as a rat run.
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Use of the bollard should be limited to enforcing timed restrictions on city centre roads and to very specific cases where small backstreets are made unsafe by rat-running.
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The first things to greet you are the huge mooring bollards that stick out at right angles, their ropes still wound in a figure of eight around them.
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The camera was balanced on a bollard and had slipped slightly so you can't see our faces.
