Sentence examples for cordon this from inspiring English sources

We decided to take our Tibetan flags outside of the cordon (this is a free country), and were subjected to aggressive bullying by Chinese men carrying huge flags which they used to cover and hide ours.

The force has put up a large cordon this afternoon and evacuated the street nearby the local hospital.

Other menus were so flowery: a cordon of this, an envelope of that.

Cook chased a wide one, like Morkel did this morning and Smith yesterday and got a thick edge to the cordon, Kallis this time at second slip.

On April 5, the Marines threw a cordon around this city of roughly 300,000, following the ambush murder of four American security contractors.

The French want to cordon off this mountain range leaving no escape.

The police claimed to have "no alternative" but to escalate their actions when protesters sought to break through their cordon, but this claim is obviously false.

But this week the council informed businesses still affected by the cordon that this timetable had not been agreed by their officers.

To investigate the impact of veterinary cordon fences, this study sought to understand how mobility was used in the past, how it is used now, along with the timing and cause of its demise.

U.S. and Iraqi troops this week cordoned off this neighborhood of oatmeal-colored houses and trash-strewn streets that the Americans have nicknamed the "second Fallujah," after the town about 35 miles west of Baghdad where insurgents have fought pitched battles against U.S. and Iraqi forces.

The bottom line is that, unless Bank of America's lawyers really messed up the transfers, Bank of America is far from insolvency itself, having the option of cordoning off this liability to a large extent through a bankruptcy filing.