"I used to always say, 'Look, so they have to wait another hour at the checkpoint, what's the big deal?' But the point is it offends them, and you have to take people's feelings seriously".
I first made the trip from Scotland in 1981, when visitors to the city were still having their bags searched at checkpoints - what a difference when you visit the place today..
In the city of Kashgar, checkpoints enforce what the authorities call "Project Beauty" — beauty, in this case, being an exposed face.
When planning a lesson, provide checkpoints for what students should be able to do/articulate at a given point in the lesson and devise a way to check that quickly.
And in this respect the West Bank is a tougher problem than Gaza, because it remains speckled by Israeli settlements and throttled by checkpoints.What America must now prove is that its moderate Arab allies, far from being traitors, can actually deliver desirable results.
In recent months there, insurgents have killed several important tribal leaders and staged regular attacks on police checkpoints in what Iraqi and American officials have called a campaign to re-establish the insurgency.
After a short ride along the infamous Highway 8, we snaked through a bunch of checkpoints, entering what would later become known as "The Green Zone," a large area in central Baghdad that was secured by a long perimeter.
Checkpoint 2: What budget impasse?
Checkpoint 1: What is the date?
Even before the soldiers had time to speak, rebels attacked the checkpoint with what sounded like rifles and medium machine guns.
— Greg Wilesmith, an Australian journalist who was held at a military checkpoint "Within what seemed like just minutes, I was whisked into a reception room where he was waiting".
