They point out that the police came promptly to the Basra crash site and helped cordon off the area, a task they might not have been able to do a few months ago.Some of the insurgents, for their part, may be expressing a certain dissatisfaction with the way their revolt is going.
Poisoning snails with molluscicides, however, seems a little harsh, so many gardeners prefer to cordon plants with broken eggshells (which snails find hard to glide over) or drown them in beer traps (so at least they die happy).Perhaps the most enduring anti-snail strategy, however, is "lobbing them over the fence" into a neighbour's garden.
But it could not even cordon off the school in which the hostages were held.
Several past and present England internationals – an entire slip cordon – followed suit.
Johnston, who saw the crash site from outside the police cordon soon after first light on Saturday, explained: "I have heard one of the main suspicions was that the main transmission gearbox might have shattered.
A particularly tasty dish – a cordon bleu irony, an irony worthy of a rating from Michelin – is produced by the important contest to be the next leader of the scunnered Scottish Labour party.
Fourteen years elapse before it is revealed that Babette is a cordon bleu cook – a fact that leads to her cooking the sisters and their guests a sumptuous once-in-a-lifetime meal, a cathartic event for her, her employers and the community, leaving the diners questioning their lifelong denial of mortal pleasures.
At Sheffield the train doors were kept locked until the police and security men had all got off and formed a mass cordon blocking the exit from the platform.
About 500 protesters, most of them African-American, lined up on the other side of the road to the entrance of the prison which was barricaded by a cordon of Swat police dressed in full riot gear and brandishing tear gas rifles.
Loyalist demonstrators broke through a security cordon on Monday night and tried to enter the council chamber as they threw golf balls and bottles.
A police cordon was placed around the court buildings.
