Sentence examples for in cordon from inspiring English sources

"You can come in, cordon off a city, and level it, à la Falluja.

We found that E2F1, E2F2 and E2F3 have severely reduced selection in comparison with E2F4 and E2F5 in cordon sequence comparison between human and mouse.

There, hundreds of police officers locked arms in cordons to hold back throngs of black-hatted Orthodox men who whistled, catcalled, and threw water, candy and a few plastic chairs.

They spent nine hours in the cordon, adventuring and jumping gaps in the earth that they couldn't even see the bottom of.

Having said that, the only time I've been put in the slip cordon in the last ten years or so was immediately AFTER a ball had gone through a vacant third slip.

The 76-year-old Nobel laureate said he now lives in a high security cordon in his temple palace grounds in Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, on the advice of Indian security officials.

Everyone in the cordon seems rather complacent about being trapped in this deadly petri dish.

A senior American military officer said 2,500 American soldiers would stay in a cordon around Najaf, though units would rotate in and out.

Defensive shots rarely score runs and risk being caught in the cordon, while the pull and hook shots can result in a catch on the boundary, for which two men were usually set in "leg-theory" bowling.

Soldiers came in to cordon off the place and ambulances were rushing people to hospital".

He was caught in the cordon, not by the slips but by the keeper BJ Watling.