Word: cordons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...working microbiology lab in his home. He did not have an art exhibit in his home. We also had a dead body," says Maureen Dempsey, spokesperson for the Buffalo field office of the FBI. "We didn't know what was in there. That's why we had to cordon off the house." The bacteria that Kurtz had in his house had been used in the past to simulate dangerous bacteria for research purposes - which was exactly why Kurtz wanted it for his own work. But that, too, raised questions for law enforcement...
...fight against corporate corruption, Spitzer’s hypocrisy is as stunning as it is disheartening. Spitzer’s resignation yesterday after a burst of public outcry was the best and only thing he could do for the state of New York. While Spitzer has tried to cordon off this affair as pertaining only to his private life, its enormous effect on public opinion would have undoubtedly affected his ability to govern. Spitzer’s colleagues and constituents no longer trust him, and with good reason—his two-facedness insults their intelligence. Without their support, Spitzer...
...central Caracas subway station, metal barriers, manned by national guardsmen, cordon off a long hallway. The site is reminiscent of a military checkpoint, but the eager consumers seeking entrance are there for a less sinister reason. They're stocking up on basic food supplies such as rice, black beans, and what has, in recent months, become the Holy Grail of edibles: powdered milk...
...husband, wife and teenage son. They had no running water - they bathed and washed their clothes in the river - and the place was lit by a single bulb. In every direction just beyond the watermelon patch, office parks and houses and apartment complexes were going up, forming a cordon around the farmland that was drawing inexorably tighter. As it is in vast swathes of China, the new was replacing the old, and it was not doing so slowly. It was doing so in the blink...
Aware of the threats against her, scores of young men wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Suicide Sacrificers for Benazir" formed a human security cordon. The Suicide Sacrificers took their volunteer security jobs seriously. "Benazir is the daughter of our great leader [PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto], and he was executed by the army," said 20-year-old student Sheikh Ahad as he waited for her plane to touch down. "Her brothers have been killed. She has sacrificed her family for Pakistan, and now she is sacrificing her own self for the poor of this country...