He did so and found that the barrier had not disappeared at all.

The normal barriers between the two houses and the Governor's office disappeared.

This change is occurring even as the traditional barriers between banks, building societies and insurance companies are disappearing.

"The minute I walk in the door, the racial barrier disappears," she said.

Such formal barriers between the races have now disappeared, but not their legacy.

"And once we have the euro, the last barriers will disappear."

Perhaps other barriers would disappear with nothing more than time and patience.

In the second after that, the barrier wavered and then disappeared entirely.

Somehow, during that time, the unspoken, unconscious barriers between them had disappeared.

Needless to say, barriers to the free movement of services in the internal market should disappear.