Sentence examples for checkpoint setting from inspiring English sources

In Tikrit, a suicide car bomber drove his vehicle into a police checkpoint, setting off a blast that killed six policemen and two civilians, and wounded 24 people.

A checkpoint set up by Greenwich police on Nov. 26 proved that.

During the last move, there was an impromptu checkpoint set up by the revolutionaries.

For his pains, all the bishop got was a fright at a highway checkpoint set up by unidentified men.

The civilians were shot by American forces when they were near a checkpoint set up by Iraqis who are working with the Americans to rid the area of militias.

And it must have felt like Christmas for the sniffer dogs, who were rewarded with treats for each suspect they greeted at the police checkpoint set up to snare unsuspecting stoners.

By some accounts, including those from Polish officers of the allied force that controls the Karbala area, the victims died in a volley of gunfire as they halted at an improvised checkpoint set up with rocks dragged onto the road.

All three arrived at a Northern Alliance checkpoint set up near Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan, one of five provinces where Taliban forces have fled but Northern Alliance forces have failed to establish control.

They were caught after failing to pass through an unexpected checkpoint set up by the organizers.

That means that with each Palestinian killed or injured, with each additional checkpoint set up and curfew imposed, the longevity of the protests is ensured.

Officers at the checkpoint, set up at 9 p.m. New Year's Eve on Lankershim Boulevard, between Oxnard and Erwin streets, stopped 1,450 vehicles.