Sentence examples for checking identity from inspiring English sources

Kashgar police stop motorists going into and out of Uighur sections of the city, checking identity cards and belongings.

Residents said that roadblocks had popped up all across Khartoum on Sunday, with soldiers boarding buses, checking identity cards and escorting male Darfurians into jail cells.

The police were frisking people and checking identity papers, giving extra scrutiny to those who carried water bottles, smelling the contents to check for gasoline.

HONG KONG — Security in central Beijing can often appear quite ordinary — uniformed police patrols, officers moving about smartly on Segways, track-suited undercover men on the prowl, guards checking identity cards.

And you can conceive how it could be useful for checking identity when conducting a transaction, locating nearby customers to offer them coupons, and that sort of thing.

Entry control focusing on checking identity, the visit's purpose and searching for firearms could have impeded all of the above (lone-wolf) attackers when launching shooting massacres, although the type of entry control needed varies.

Other layers include checking identities, scanning people and their luggage and searching them at random.

Western aid officials working in Syria say a process of checking identities is expected in conflict situations like this.

An opposition politician, Nebojsa Covic, was negotiating with the police, who also blocked the road from Belgrade, checking identities of those traveling toward the mine.

We even had to prove we knew them by heart to the sergeant checking identities on our way through the gates.

They'd come to check identity papers, see who was legal and who was not.