Sentence examples for on a cordon from inspiring English sources

Scotland Yard said the alarm had been raised by a member of the public who spoke to a police officer on a cordon at the junction of Birchin Lane and Cornhill in the City.

It is not unusual for Nagl and Colonel Swisher to go out in the morning on a "cordon and search" raid and return in the afternoon to their tactical operations center for a meeting with the second in command, Maj.

Once he was on solids, and for the rest of her life, she cooked for him with the same commitment with which she had held the bottle, sending herself in the mid-sixties, despite her illness, on a Cordon Bleu cookery course so that she could try new meals during his occasional visits home.

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.

Many of the riot police held their shields over their heads to protect themselves from the projectiles thrown by demonstrators on the other side of a cordon of buses.

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".

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.

The three were on a cordon-and-search operation of a compound when one or more assailants opened fire, said Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, a spokesman for the American-led military coalition in Afghanistan.

On a cordoned-off balcony behind the museum, police examined the broken window and empty painting frames.

On Saturday, a cordon of officers turned their backs on the mayor's image as it was being screened outside Christ Tabernacle church in Queens, where de Blasio was speaking at the funeral of one of the murdered officers, Rafael Ramos.

Immediately after the blast on Friday, a cordon of uniformed officers shut down the area and waved away journalists.