Sentence examples for of a cordon from inspiring English sources

The argument's nature is signaled by Adam's first words to Evelyn, as she contemplates that statue on the wrong side of a cordon: "You stepped over the line".

He especially remembers one from a brigadier in Shropshire inviting him to dinner with the promise of "a cordon bleu meal cooked by my African manservant".

The officer, Simon Harwood, hit Ian Tomlinson, a 47-year-old newspaper vendor, with a baton and shoved him to the ground as Mr. Tomlinson tried to find his way out of a cordon put up to contain protesters.

While most of us make do with simply hanging in there, cookery schools across the country are noticing a rush to learn kitchen skills from modest dinner party cooks to those in search of a cordon bleu career.

At a time when the BBC is under more pressure than ever before – from competition and technological change as much as political upheaval – it needs more of a cordon sanitaire from the interference of politicians, not less.

On the other side of a cordon of policemen and crowd-control barriers, a line of music industry insiders, fashionistas and journalists waited to be admitted with uncharacteristic patience.

An American Army officer who took part in the assault on Tal Afar, in the north of Iraq, earlier this fall, said that an American infantry brigade was placed in the position of providing a cordon of security around the besieged city for Iraqi forces, most of them Shiites, who were "rounding up any Sunnis on the basis of whatever a Shiite said to them".

When the van moved away, Kennedy-Macfoy drove to a cordon of police officers with shields further along the road.

The Iraqi troops were on their seventh house raid of the morning, part of a cordon-and-search operation in an area of towns and farmland so dangerous that American soldiers call it the Triangle of Death.

Typically, certainly here in the UK, renovating a historic property means bureaucracy and preservation lots of a cordoned off four-poster beds and "KEEP OFF THE GRASS" signs.

But few people now entering middle age can forget the omnipresence of Dr. Comfort's book, whose original title was "The Joy of Sex: A Cordon Bleu Guide to Lovemaking," which was quickly changed to "The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking," after the owners of the Cordon Bleu name objected.