Sentence examples for by a cordon of from inspiring English sources

In recent days, surviving miners and relatives of those trapped, many brimming with anger, have been kept away from the staging area by a cordon of police officers.

Before the ceremony, tens of thousands of people crowded into the square, held back by a cordon of soldiers in front of the V.I.P. stands.

Ultimately, there was a roadblock, the car was fired upon by a cordon of police armed with rifles, and we crashed.

I was caught in a group squeezed by a cordon of officers arm in arm - not out of the square but against some railings.

They were cut off from the grand Copacabana Palace hotel, where the IOC's mandarins had gathered, by a cordon of riot police, part of an army of 85,000 out on the streets.

Sadr City, the Baghdad neighborhood that is the center of the Mahdi Army's power, was sealed off by a cordon of Iraqi troops and what appeared to be several American units.

By May a cordon of Bosnian Serb soldiers had imposed an embargo on food and other supplies that provoked most of the town's Bosniak fighters to flee the area.

The British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary immediately activated a contingency plan and by 4 25 pm a cordon of vehicle check points were in place around the prison, and others were later in place in strategic positions across Northern Ireland, resulting in the recapture of one prisoner at 11 00 pm.

In 2006, he was sentenced to 51 months in jail on what supporters say were trumped-up charges; upon his release, he and his family were confined to their home, watched day and night by surveillance cameras and a cordon of men.

Most of the demonstrators applauded Mr Jackson's departure, but called for more heads to roll.The demonstrators were just about to pack up at around midnight when gun shots suddenly rang through the air, injuring two policemen who were part of a cordon of officers standing side-by-side to protect the police station.

On Friday, National Rifle Association chief executive Wayne LaPierre offered the lobbying group's own prescription to tackle the problem of school shootings: the nation's schools should be placed under a "cordon of protection" by armed officers.