BATG

What were previously known as the natives of Hispaniola were scattered descendants of the Visigoths, the barbarians at the gates of the dying Roman Empire.

The days of empire may be long gone, but the notion that the barbarians at the gates need to be civilised is clearly alive and well.

In the abstracted space crafted by an ingenious poet of an architect, IM Pie has crafted the simulacrum of that theologians' gathering, not to escape and run away from the barbarians at the gates of our humanity but to tame that diabolical savagery dwelling in the very fabric of our humanity.

One of those myths, as romantic and powerful as any, is the story that "barbarians at the gates" crushed the Roman empire and drove the West into darkness.

And there will now be more barbarians at the gates, since anybody can now hold a block of 24.99 per cent and be a thorn for the 
existing promoters.

The era of Reagan and Thatcher was not about the stately and orderly city-state; it was about the barbarians at the gates. Thus the silhouette reversed: Shoulders got big, and cutting patterns narrowed from the waist down.

Governments live in fear of barbarians at the gates, but the men and women locked out might do something truly revolutionary: balance the books.

While catching up on the local news, I noticed they are resisting the "barbarians at the gates" namely the language loonies.

With the Dow at an all-time high, takeover deals entering astronomical levels that make the Barbarians at the Gates look like Fuller Brush Men and executive salaries at positively obscene payouts, the '00s have had it all ...

the obvious barbarians at the gates of the new Rome of Western liberalism." But the threats to democracy come also from within, in the form of unassimilated minorities from immigration or decay of democratic ideals and practice.

Ever since David Brooks's 2001 Atlantic Monthly article promised to take its readers to a "place with no Starbucks, no Pottery Barn, no Borders or Barnes & Noble," a place without "blue New York Times delivery bags," liberal journalists have flooded us with articles warning of the barbarians at the gates.

A nd only one person stands any chance of stopping them, holding back the barbarians at the gates.