Sentence examples for for a cordon from inspiring English sources
Last week's story on the Netherlands said that calls for a cordon sanitaire on Geert Wilders's Freedom Party would not go down well with the 10% of the voters who are foreign-born.
Calls for a cordon sanitaire may not go down well with the 10% of voters who are foreign-born.The polls suggest that post-election coalition-building will be tricky.
Nowadays, nobody would confuse computer servers with headwaiters any more than one would mistake Le Big Blue for a Cordon Bleu chef.
Just as we are quietly grateful to prison officers for banging up criminals, so too we are grateful for psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for providing a cordon sanitaire between us and flamboyant insanity.
They had to get the police special forces to create a cordon for me to run out through".
How edifying, then, to see Alastair Cook's men so aptly capture the mood of their compatriots by forming a cordon for the ingenuous author of their embarrassment.
At about 7.15pm, a senior police office gave an order for officers to form a cordon and move people from the junction with Cornhill out onto Threadneedle Street.
| Security guards working for Brookfield Properties took down a cordon of metal barricades surrounding Zuccotti Park on Tuesday evening, but entered the park later that night to enforce rules forbidding anyone to lie down.
The latest development came after a day on which the senior officer carrying out the official review of public order policing tactics voiced serious concerns to MPs about the use of "kettling" - containing demonstrators in a cordon for hours - and described as "utterly unacceptable" the practice of some officers of removing their identity numbers.
Twelve hours later, the morning rush hour rolled around and, except for a yellow cordon around the mangled bus stop and some shattered storefronts, there was little to indicate that a terror strike had occurred the evening before.
One idea doing the rounds if diplomacy goes on failing is for a maritime cordon, based on the practice of the American-led Proliferation Security Initiative, to stop shipments related to Iran's nuclear and other weapons programmes: a sort of PSI for the Gulf region.
