(n.) A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.
(n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
(n.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.
(n.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.
(n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.
Example Sentences:
(1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(2) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(3) A spokesperson for Staffordshire police said: “A detailed investigation is under way and the scene will remain cordoned off while the investigation continues.
(4) Police cordoned off the street and were allowing people to protest in groups of 50 for about five to 10 minutes before escorting them away.
(5) He had a private table on Dakota’s second floor that would often be cordoned off by a curtain upon his party’s arrival.
(6) Security experts have warned for years that they could be a target for terrorists because they are rarely cordoned off and have few or no bag checks.
(7) Members of the elite police squad wearing helmets came running out of the building and a police union representative at the cordon around the area shouted: "He's dead, he's dead."
(8) Photographs of the site in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero were released on Tuesday after a small group of journalists were taken behind a heavily policed cordon.
(9) The recent arrest of the brother, Liu Hui, may be particular retaliation for two incidents that broke the security cordon around Liu Xia and her isolation in her fifth-floor apartment in central Beijing.
(10) Just beyond the cordon, everyday life in one of the capital’s busiest areas for tourism and other commerce continued as best it could, with the addition of TV news crews gathered as close as possible to the scene, mainly by Lambeth Bridge, to the west of parliament, and just over the river on the South Bank.
(11) It’s a real shame.” 8.05am Facebook Twitter Pinterest A 500-metre cordon was set up around the rue du Corbillon.
(12) Then he fenced tamely outside his off stump at Plunkett, Jonny Bairstow pouched the ball and appealed with the slip cordon and Nigel Llong raised his finger.
(13) "Syrian security services quickly cordoned and searched the entire beach neighbourhood where the shooting had occurred," the embassy was informed.
(14) There are no police to unspool tape and cordon-off sensitive areas.
(15) But police allowed one family with three small children to pass through the cordon and go home.
(16) The force said officers had created a cordon around Tomlinson to give him CPR.
(17) There was a security cordon around the cemetery, where a high-level government delegation including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, stood on a stage draped in red and black and addressed a small crowd through loudspeakers.
(18) Amid reports that a large area around Qunu might be cordoned off for a funeral, she added: "I don't think that would be right."
(19) At the Green, where a local supermarket was set ablaze on Monday night, police kept the volunteers behind a cordon for fear of falling material from the building.
(20) More than 560 people were arrested across Toronto over the weekend after violence erupted between riot police and masked protesters as leaders of the G20 countries gathered behind the toughest security cordon in the history of the summit.
Prevent
Definition:
(v. t.) To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.
(v. t.) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
(v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.
(v. i.) To come before the usual time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(2) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
(3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(4) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(5) The penetration of (22)Na was not prevented by the presence of metabolic inhibitors or by 500 mm NaCl in the suspending medium.
(6) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
(7) This decrease was prevented by DOCA, hydrocortisone and corticosterone.
(8) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(9) Treatment of the bound F1-ATPase with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan prevented complete release of the enzyme by ATP.
(10) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(11) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
(12) Defibrotide prevents the dramatic fall of creatine phosphokinase activity in the ischemic ventricle: metabolic changes which reflect changes in the cells affected by prolonged ischemia.
(13) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
(14) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
(15) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
(16) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
(17) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(18) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(19) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(20) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.