1. It acted as the " cordon sanitaire " against incursions from the Ottoman Empire. 2. It too is looking at how to put a cordon sanitaire around the Internet. 3. The Mediterranean may be bigger than the Rio Grande, but it is no cordon sanitaire . 4. "There's something to be said for this cordon sanitaire ," 5. To prevent the plague from spreading, the army sets up a cordon sanitaire along the Mississippi. 6. This created a " cordon sanitaire " between the end of TWW and the start of Harlech. 7. Will we burn a cordon sanitaire around infected areas and firebomb cities if it comes to that? 8. Without the states of the " cordon sanitaire ", it was believed impossible for France to defeat Germany. 9. The election caused a furore in Belgium and the other parties declared a Cordon sanitaire around the party. 10. The vocabulary of warfare and the military include many words of French origin ( admiral & cordon sanitaire .