Sentence examples for cordon themselves from inspiring English sources

The larger contingents, from universities and secondary schools, used rope barriers to cordon themselves off from infiltrators.

"Right now, there's a clear financial incentive for wealthy communities to cordon themselves off because they get to keep their property taxes" to fund local schools, said Rebecca Sibilia, EdBuild's chief executive.

Meanwhile, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European commission, made his own call to arms, condemning in the name of Europe's shared values those he accused of trying to cordon themselves off from "distress, fear and misery", and the populist politicians who stirred up xenophobia in the name of winning votes.

As black migration accelerated from the southern parts of the US to the north in the first half of the 20th century, white residents started cordoning themselves off in white neighborhoods and then, eventually, white suburbs.

It turned out, however, that British generosity over Mosul was due to Britain having promised eastern Turkey to Tsarist Russia and thinking it would be useful to have a French cordon sanitaire between themselves and the Russian army.

A cordon of uniformed and plainclothes officers planted themselves between Tiller and the spectators.

While the Vlaams Blok itself also largely rejected cooperation with other parties, it did increasingly consider such cooperation, particularly in elections in 1994, 1999 and 2000, only to find themselves effectively blocked by the cordon sanitaire.

But in the immediate aftermath of the attack, this news had not filtered through, and panic and frustration spread as people found themselves unable to get through the cordon.

cism for their practices, but businesses situated in the suburbs could largely immunize themselves from similar criticism by creating a cordon sanitaire of parking lots around their stores.

That evening in North London, next to the latest emergency cordon, there was a sense of crises merging, appending themselves one to another in the way that clouds do, to eventually cover the sky.

Although the 1990s campaign of violence against abortion practitioners has ceased, medics still take measures to protect themselves and there is now a federally imposed cordon zone around all clinics.