Today, Old Shanghai is walled in by the apartment and office towers slowly and inevitably approaching from all sides.
The walled in town with castles and fortresses is right on the coast.
My unit stood there in a walled-in compound in Baghdad, naked, sores dotted all over our bodies, feet peeling, watching our suits burn.
Wearing a baggy, navy corduroy suit brightened by a turquoise Little Bear tie, Hirsh, 51, is holding court in his cinder-block-walled office in a former munitions factory in Toronto.
For years, a holiday in the Dominican Republic entailed staying at a walled-in, cookie-cutter resort.
Unless you already happen to live beside a stunning mountain lake in Guatemala or inside a fairy-tale walled garden in Varanasi, you are far, far away, but your individual comforts and desires are still in familiar focus.
The city was formally founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain, and is now the only walled city in the Americas north of Mexico.
Here in Qobtan Jebel, a pinprick village of century-old stone walled homes in the hills west of Aleppo, Mr. Shehab Eddin's word is law, at least for now.
Perhaps he was a little too young to understand just how oppressive a walled-in society could be.
Too often, modern television audiences are walled off in their own taste silos.
Yahoo.com became a kind of AOL.com for the brave, new Internet not a walled-in Internet service, as AOL had been, mind you.
The block-wide, walled-in Czech beer garden has enough picnic tables to comfortably seat 800 and is merrily packed all summer with pitcher-swilling, sausage-eating bonhomie.
Gunmen sprayed bullets at revellers after storming the party inside a walled garden in the city in Coahuila state, across the border from Texas.
According to Umansky, the Hollywood dream couple purchased the glass-walled home in 2005 and were considering completely remodeling the one-story home but decided in the end it was too much work.
Many want them confined in walled ghettos, a growing practice in Slovakia where a far-right politician, Jan Slota, has said that the Roma should have a separate state (he didn't say where).
And if the new owners get to feeling cramped, they can always expand--Pulte designs the houses so that a third story or a walled-in patio out back can easily be added.
In short, daily life in a hardscrabble farming village in Szechuan province is a world away from the Shanghai Nanjing Road ritzy shopping street or even an old, walled neighborhood in Harbin, a crossroad of many cultures in northeastern China.
What makes the success of "Clybourne Park" so interesting is that American theater is a monoculture, a thick-walled bubble in which you'll look long and hard to find anyone with an opinion about anything that is anywhere other than well to the left of center.
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In fact, several of the more sophisticated spots are in hotels, including the glass-walled Blu Horizon in the Shangri-La overlooking Sydney Harbour, Hemmesphere in the Establishment Hotel and the cavernous lobby-level Water Bar in BLUE Sydney.
Those who have been inside describe it as being divided up into cages in some areas, with walled-off rooms in others.
There were armed civilian security guards in the walled Old City, and more guards in front of supermarkets who inspected your bags for bombs before you could enter.
This year is the 400th anniversary of the building of the city walls that make Derry one of the finest examples of a walled city anywhere in Europe.
They work in glass-walled offices and hop from Europe to Hong Kong or Tokyo, where they stay in deluxe modern hotels and sleep with their business partners.
Meanwhile, Abdelazziz lives in a walled concrete compound with thundering diesel generators providing 24-hour electricity.
Many of the old plant varieties found in the walled garden from the original estate were replanted and regrown.
In a walled vineyard belonging to a former poppy farmer Mr Shaulis has set up a drip irrigation system.
Still, there is an extensive security presence in the walled colonial city of Cartagena for the summit -- including more than 7, 600 police officers and thousands more troops.
It will require a departure from the walled-garden mentality in which the operation of a static Web site or a network of disparate branded blogs has been the status quo.
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Near the medina and the Menara gardens, the hotel is set in 40 walled acres of Moorish gardens and every one of the 139 rooms and suites has a balcony that overlooks them.
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