Sentence examples for a cordon for from inspiring English sources

They had to get the police special forces to create a cordon for me to run out through".

How edifying, then, to see Alastair Cook's men so aptly capture the mood of their compatriots by forming a cordon for the ingenuous author of their embarrassment.

The latest development came after a day on which the senior officer carrying out the official review of public order policing tactics voiced serious concerns to MPs about the use of "kettling" - containing demonstrators in a cordon for hours - and described as "utterly unacceptable" the practice of some officers of removing their identity numbers.

Wayne LaPierre, executive director of the National Rifle Association, said that the program to bring armed security to schools would be called "The National School Shield" and would seek to provide a "cordon of protection" for every school.

So thinking about how to make the Sarkozy plan stick, anything the European Union can do to separate the forces and create a cordon sanitaire for diplomacy to proceed would be a step forward".

He knows how to stay in the game by keeping things tight and then, before you know it, he's taken two wickets and ends the day with figures of 2-45". Alastair Cook finally withdraws Moeen in place of James Anderson, who has a packed cordon for former Lancashire team-mate Faf du Plessis.

Many entrances to Sadr City remain sealed off by United States troops, while Sadrist fighters are guarding street corners inside a cordon, on constant alert for further American raids.

Calls for a cordon sanitaire may not go down well with the 10% of voters who are foreign-born.The polls suggest that post-election coalition-building will be tricky.

Last week's story on the Netherlands said that calls for a cordon sanitaire on Geert Wilders's Freedom Party would not go down well with the 10% of the voters who are foreign-born.

Nowadays, nobody would confuse computer servers with headwaiters any more than one would mistake Le Big Blue for a Cordon Bleu chef.

In May 1993 the City of London Police confirmed a planned security cordon for the City, conceived by its commissioner Owen Kelly, and on 3 July 1993 the 'ring of steel' was introduced.