Sentence examples for checkpoint looking from inspiring English sources

Instead, the soldiers became investigators; they began thoroughly searching men who came through the checkpoint, looking for weapons and also for identity cards, passes or other clues that they were members of the group.

At night I slept in back of my Jeep facing the checkpoint, looking up every couple of hours to make sure I was still safe.

Taking precautions The young volunteer surveys every car that passes through the checkpoint, looking for children aged 10 and under.

They have blocked the main roads into town and set up checkpoints, looking for gunmen loyal to the government.

Determined to find food, and now looking like a Russian peasant, he passed through several Soviet checkpoints looking for something to eat.

In response, a now removed Facebook page calling for Arabs to be expelled from Iraqi Kurdistan quickly racked up thousands of likes, while a number of protests with the same demands were held, including one in Erbil which reportedly involved makeshift checkpoints looking for Arabs.

The young men at the checkpoints look scary holding knives and heavy pipes but are polite, and despite being volunteers, professional.

Reporters in Oraovica saw no sign of an estimated 250 rebels who captured the village on Saturday, and all checkpoints looked to be in the hands of the Yugoslav Army.

It seemed a fine place for a pair of newly minted Kosovo police patrolmen to park their shiny cruiser on a recent evening and set up a checkpoint, to look for stolen cars and hidden weapons.

Hours after crowds showered them with flowers and money as they entered the city, the officer and his soldiers began operating a checkpoint to look for goods and weapons stolen from Taliban bases.

A nine-year-old described being sexually abused with his friend by two French soldiers at the IDP camp when they went to a checkpoint to look for something to eat.