• There was a compact-car-size mound of drugs already piled beyond the first target berm.

    NEWYORKER: The Kingpins

  • It's too early to determine how the case of Mr. Ergen's berm will be resolved.

    WSJ: What's a View Worth?

  • Residents fought for years to have the berm rebuilt and other flood mitigation efforts put in place.

    WSJ: Staten Island area hit by Sandy chosen for buyouts

  • "It's not aesthetic, " said Sybille English, who with her husband, Bob, owns a 4, 700-square-foot home adjacent to the berm.

    WSJ: What's a View Worth?

  • Valdespin's homer landed on the walkway beside the berm down the right-field line, his fourth home run of the exhibition season.

    WSJ: Teheran strikes out 7 as Braves beat Mets 2-1

  • It included a 22-foot berm that, while offering protection from the killer storm, also blocked the couple's views of the water.

    WSJ: Dunes vs. property rights in storm-battered NJ

  • Berm crest: ridge of sand or gravel deposited by wave action on the shore just above the normal high water mark.

    UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

  • U.S. Army engineers in Mosul have recently completed a 64-kilometer dirt berm around that city to stem the flow of insurgents and weapons.

    CNN: Residents fleeing Tal Afar

  • But the community has repeatedly flooded, especially since 1992, when a nor'easter washed away a berm that had served to hold back the waves.

    WSJ: Staten Island area hit by Sandy chosen for buyouts

  • The DPKO finally confirmed on 21 June that Minurso would be allowed to supervise the withdrawal and replacement of Moroccan 105mm guns along the Berm.

    BBC: News Online

  • Soldiers have been moving earth to construct a trench and a berm around Tal Afar, forcing traffic to go through rather than around security checkpoints.

    CNN: Residents fleeing Tal Afar

  • Officials in Bow Mar say the construction and design of the berm comply with town guidelines and that they're not obliged to protect the views of people outside the town's boundaries.

    WSJ: What's a View Worth?

  • The Moroccans used them in the fighting and have now deployed them as their main weapon alongside the 900-mile sand wall, the "Berm" - that they constructed as a barrier between Western Sahara and the Saharawi camps in Algeria.

    BBC: News Online

  • The most obvious area of progress was, coming out of the meeting last week, trying to bridge what seemed to be differences with respect to the berm, the barrier islands that Governor Jindal had proposed, and we now have that authority and dredging is beginning.

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