Sentence examples for checkpoints some from inspiring English sources

Westerners are wary of Interior Ministry checkpoints, some of which have been fake, as well as of ministry units, which are sometimes militia-controlled and have been implicated in sectarian killings.

On the marathon stages, partly run at night, the organisers set up checkpoints, some unannounced, to prevent the participants taking short cuts, although several were caught jumping on trains and in cars in the following year's event.

Fewer Laptops Make the Flight Because valuable possessions often pile up haphazardly at airport security checkpoints, some business travelers have been leaving their laptops at home, industry experts have noticed this year.

Now let's also hope that the airport screeners manning those checkpoints, some of which are starting to look like the Tijuana border crossing, also clearly get the word on the rules.

In the broad territory that stretches between the Caribbean Sea and the Magdalena River-Colombia's Mississippi-a traveller must often negotiate at least three different kinds of checkpoints, some belonging to the guerrillas, some to the Army, and some to the A.U.C.

Given the border's porous nature and plentiful opportunities for bypassing checkpoints, some analysts question the enforceability of a buffer zone.

[C8.] Tension at the Security Checkpoint Some readers who are frequent fliers say that customer service at airport security checkpoints can be far from courteous.

After rebels had demolished an army checkpoint, some Salafist fighters burst into a nearby village, ripped the cross from the church and killed an Alawite.

Soldiers at the checkpoint, some of them veterans of many United Nations peacekeeping missions abroad, denied this; had they wanted to hit Mr Speight, they said, they would not have missed.

By 1 July 2011, the single-track railway from Singapore station to Woodlands will close, and the southern terminus of the Malaysian rail system will be relocated to the Woodlands Train Checkpoint, some 13 miles north of central Singapore.

Syria, which has 35,000 soldiers in Lebanon, has a few checkpoints outside some camps.