cordon sanitaire

Last week the normal conventions of sharing out committee chairs in the European Parliament among all political groupings was abandoned with a cordon sanitaire erected to ensure no European eurosceptics were elected as should be expected.

Do not succumb to the secluded bliss of having a cordon sanitaire. They will try their best to protect you but also because this gives some of them the power to strut.

But, with the center-left Socialists and Democrats projected to win 147, down from 185, the two mainstream parties between them will no longer have a majority and will have to reach out to liberals to maintain a "cordon sanitaire" and exclude the far-right from decision-making.

Failure to brief the President of the situation beyond Malacanang's wall and of his cordon sanitaire could leave him only counting the good things he have done and not the negative impact of the many pro-people policies he had caused implemented.

Cory was surrounded by a cordon sanitaire and without any political background she was putty to the very people who fought and suffered to achieve change and reform.

He was conferred the nondescript title, 'special presidential assistant,' a lazy designation that is thoughtlessly given to all kinds of gofers and characters in a president's cordon sanitaire. But, while Go may often be seen performing the tasks of a personal secretary for Mr.

'China wants to create a sort of cordon sanitaire along Tibet's southern border, and that is a major reason why China is investing economic and human resources in Nepal,' a New Delhi-based military analyst told Asia Times.

"I am patient, I don't have a cordon sanitaire because I am very spontaneous which has its own rewards as information gets to you unfiltered because you have direct link to people.

There has to be a cordon sanitaire that is truly impermeable and the choke points of entry and exit minutely monitored.

Israel fears Iranian and Hezbollah military presence at its borders and has been asking Russia to guarantee a cordon sanitaire, while threatening military action that could escalate into a regional conflict.

Pakistan became a member of the US-sponsored SEATO defence pact and thereafter of the Baghdad Pact (subsequently CENTO), thus making this country a strategic element in the American cordon sanitaire around the USSR and China, and ensuring the inflow of weaponry, technology, and funds to Pakistan.

The solution that major European powers like France and Germany have settled on -and that will be a component of any solution to Merkel's current dilemma - is a cordon sanitaire against the far-right.