Sentence examples for checkpoints life from inspiring English sources

Despite prolific military checkpoints, life in the city has appeared more normal than in many other Syrian towns and cities, allowing officials to project an air of "business as usual".

All those settlements, patrolled connecting roads and checkpoints disrupt life in a way no society would tolerate.

"It's terrible," he said of the checkpoint and life here in general.

And indeed, it seemed to come from the far side of a checkpoint in life I had yet to navigate, with regard to passion, sex, language and wisdom.

What can we do?" As ambulances sped by, a taxi driver waiting at the same checkpoint said life was worse now than under the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

This idea was proposed by Thorpe et al. (1998), who suggested that growth thresholds act as developmental checkpoints in early life history stages to signal future life history tactics.

THE four-hour journey through the bush from Kano to Jos in northern Nigeria features many of the staples of African life: checkpoints with greedy soldiers, huge potholes, scrawny children in football shirts drying rice on the road.

Sometimes I think about that and I feel that at its heart, occupation has been a series of checkpoints in my life; separating me from my brothers, from my childhood friends, from my history, from two-thirds of my own home.

The checkpoint between the life and death of macrophages is crucial for the host's frontline immune defense during acute phase infection.

"UNICEF has been assisting the IDPs from the beginning of the crisis, driving through military checkpoints while delivering life-saving assistance to highly vulnerable communities," said UNICEF Côte d'Ivoire Officer-in-Charge Sylvie Dossou.

"Within 2km from our checkpoints it's normal life.