Sentence examples for outside the cordon from inspiring English sources

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Some people gathered outside the cordon to await news of missing relatives.

We follow the lives of people both inside and outside the "cordon", as they call it.

By then the police had already "kettled" some protesters but Horwood was outside the cordon.

Late in the morning during the company's sweep, the insurgents fired a few bursts of automatic rifle fire from outside the cordon.

At nightfall on Thursday, American troops outside the cordon stormed a cluster of buildings that formed one of the Sadr strongholds.

Plenty of suffering for a life, certainly, but most of us subsist on the plausible expectation that fortune will draw a circle around that personal portion, and that the truly unbearable — murder, rape, dead children, torture, war — will remain outside the cordon.

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After the ruling, protesters gathered outside the cordoned-off courthouse, some chanting, "Hands up, don't shoot!" They later marched from the courthouse to the recreation centre where Tamir Rice was shot.

The bomber apparently entered the international arrivals terminal from outside, advancing to the cordon where taxi drivers and relatives wait to greet arriving passengers.

We decided to take our Tibetan flags outside of the cordon (this is a free country), and were subjected to aggressive bullying by Chinese men carrying huge flags which they used to cover and hide ours.

The house, which is not normally open to the public but can be viewed from the outside, was cordoned off after the collapse.

By the evening of her death, floral tributes were being laid at the cordon outside the library and small groups of the MPs' constituents were gathering in silence.

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