Sentence examples for erect checkpoints from inspiring English sources

What if Arab students erect checkpoints on the quad, pretending to be Israeli soldiers as they search backpacks?

Some 52 politicians and candidates for office have so far been killed, despite the government's decision to place the military on alert and erect checkpoints to search for illegal weapons.

Israeli security forces continued to erect checkpoints between Jewish and Palestinian neighbourhoods across the city, including in central areas around the landmark American Colony hotel and St George's cathedral.

Heavily armed security forces flooded the city, erecting checkpoints and conducting searches of anyone carrying bags.

In Lugbe, a densely populated suburb, soldiers erected checkpoints and refused to let anyone leave.

In recent months there have been reports of Taliban elements' erecting checkpoints after darkness descends over the valley.

Armed with sticks and poles, red-shirted protesters have erected checkpoints at major intersections, blocking the police and the military.

Small-scale gun battles broke out between Sunni and Shiite militias, while Sunni gunmen erected checkpoints in some areas and protesters built roadblocks of burning tires.

Security forces also deployed heavily and erected checkpoints in the city as they braced for more violent protests by Morsi supporters.

Stressed and sometimes ill-trained mercenaries operate in Iraq's mayhem with apparent impunity, erecting checkpoints without authorisation, and claiming powers to detain and confiscate identity cards.

Since then, clashes have spread throughout the ethnically mixed region along the border, with each side erecting checkpoints to control roads and kidnapping civilians to put pressure on its foes.