Sentence examples for and the cordon of from inspiring English sources

Last week, he escaped his home, scaling a wall, eluding surveillance cameras and the cordon of security in a village near Linyi city in eastern Shandong province where he had been held for 19 months under house arrest.

The traffic jams have been caused, in part, by bridge and tunnel closings and the cordoning off of Lower Manhattan.

If this is not acceptable, the occupation of the West Bank and the cordoning of Gaza should cease immediately.

Reporters who toured the city on Friday said the cordon of tanks and troops that had sought to draw a ring of about a mile's radius around the Imam Ali shrine had been loosened, with civilians, and in some case militiamen, passing in and out.

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The cordon of security also kept out visitors, including journalists, diplomats and freelance Chinese activists, who were violently repelled when they tried to enter the village.

The cordon of Israeli officers protecting the festivities bothered no one inside.

Once the cordon of firepower was in place, the police made contact with the gunman by cellphone.

In the midst of this racket, at ground zero, the cordon of silence is being inexorably tightened.

The entry continues, "The term comes from the ribbons worn by members of the Order of the Garter in Great Britain, and the cordon bleu of the ancient order of St. Esprit in France, as well as from the ribbons awarded to prize-winners, animal and human alike".

He received the Order of Culture in 1979 and the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1996, the year of his last performance.