0 a guarded area around a place or country that prevents people from entering or leaving it -- 封锁线；防卫圈
Do we now need to erect a cordon sanitaire, which effectively means there will be no dialogue?
He talks with hopefulness of what he calls the cordon sanitaire.
We hear very little about that cordon sanitaire now.
Critics of the "cordon sanitaire" claim that it is also undemocratic.
We do need a cordon sanitaire but one which clearly expresses what we want to achieve when we meet with these interlocutors.
The second and main means of controlling the disease is to fell diseased elms on the cordon sanitaire principle and at least destroy the bark.
We have agreed with all democratic parties that we will be forming a cordon sanitaire against the extreme right.
An easing of frontier tension following on some cordon sanitaire development might make it easier to meet this requirement for them.
