Sentence examples for checkpoints in a from inspiring English sources

Days later, Maliki even assailed US military efforts to set up security checkpoints in a Shiite stronghold in Baghdad.

I go through so many security checkpoints in a month that I'm on a first-name basis with some of the security agents at airports I frequent.

Youths swept streets, organized security and checked identification at checkpoints in a show of popular mobilization that any transitional government will at least have to acknowledge.

During all this, the bus passed through police checkpoints, in a very crowded city that is supposed to be on high alert for terror attacks.

The Taliban have set up checkpoints in a number of villages in Buner, intimidating policemen and forcing them into their police stations, residents in Daggar said by telephone.

Corinne Geller, a spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police, said that two years ago, PhantomAlert broadcast the existence of sobriety checkpoints in a general area, but without real-time location information.

The police have also set up checkpoints in an effort to apprehend men involved in a firefight on Sunday in which three policemen died.

The entrances to Beirut's southern suburbs have long been protected by army and security force checkpoints, in an attempt to keep suicide bombers out.

Fighting began on Friday when rebel units attacked several checkpoints in an area known as the Eastern Ghouta, which has been under siege for more than six months.

The rebels lacked the heavy weapons to take the checkpoint in a head-on fight.

Mr. T'nuh recently tried to enter Israel through the Bethlehem-Gilo checkpoint in a desperate effort to find work.