Sentence examples for checkpoint in front of from inspiring English sources

"It can't put a checkpoint in front of every single building.

About an hour outside Monrovia, the driver stopped at a checkpoint in front of a hundred-thousand-acre rubber plantation owned by Firestone.

A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle set off explosives at a checkpoint in front of the local militia's headquarters, according to the Iraqi police.

The attack began around 5 a.m., when insurgents shot and killed officers at the checkpoint in front of the headquarters, which is on the same road as the Parliament building.

Hours before, militants tied a bomb to a donkey cart and led the donkey to a checkpoint in front of the home of one of President Hamid Karzai's most important political allies in Kandahar, the former governor of the Spinbaldak district.

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives attacked a checkpoint in front of the Iraqi Interior Ministry on Monday morning, killing 5, wounding 39 and roiling a country unsettled by a political crisis and a wave of deadly bombings just days ago.

Once I'm through the checkpoint, I arrive in front of a stern looking man seated on a plastic chair who may or may not be in the mood to give me a passport stamp.

But as we drove down a narrow street, a checkpoint blocked the road in front of us.

Men told of Muslim women at the checkpoint who were humiliated in front of their children because there were no bathrooms for miles around.

"There is evidence to suggest that the warning cones and printed checkpoint signs had not yet been displayed in front of the checkpoint, which may be the reason why the driver of the taxi did not believe he was required to stop," says the memo, which recommended a compensation payment of $7,500 £3,7988).

Collazo had an open head wound and had been rushed back to a sand lot in front of Checkpoint 20 to await a medevac helicopter.