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The police cordoned off the building while paramedics attended to the injured.

The area was cordoned off while fire fighters tried to keep the blaze under control.

When the Irish were on the way up, intent on mastering and merging into American society, they viewed the Great Hunger as a somewhat shameful episode--a tragedy to be cordoned off in the past and overcome.

"Sea Gate is one of a handful of neighborhoods in New York City where the streets are owned by the residents and not the city; it and the Breezy Point Cooperative are the only city neighborhoods cordoned off by a fence and gate houses."

"A seldom-used federal law making it unlawful to ""willfully and knowingly to enter or remain in ... any posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting"" has also been invoked.Eaton,"

The protest ended when the striking deputies, forcibly evicted in the middle of the night during a search for an alleged bomb, found that the national television and radio building had been cordoned off as well because of another alleged bomb threat.

Three thousand British soldiers cordoned off the city, and plucked clean the taverns, and other sailors' gathering places.

"Large denomination slot machines are usually cordoned off from the rest of the casino into a ""High Limit"" area, often with a separate team of hosts to cater to the needs of the high-rollers who play there."

Fearing for his safety, and that of motorists should he fall, police cordoned off the area, closing the bridge and surrounding roads and causing widespread traffic congestion across the City and east London.

On July 17, 2007, the building was briefly evacuated and the surrounding area was cordoned off by New York police because of a suspicious package found across the street.

Worried that the suspects were about to flee, and expecting heavy resistance to any attempt at capture, on 3 January, two hundred officers cordoned off the area and the siege began.

Farmers Markets are held approximately every 3 months in the shops area when the roads are cordoned off and local produce is sold.

"The setting of the film is a tiny town on the outskirts of ""The Zone"", a wilderness area which has been cordoned off by the government."


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