Sentence examples for famous checkpoint from inspiring English sources
Around 2003, the site came into the ownership of a development company, now known as New City Vision and under the control of the same Irish property speculators who, until last year, owned Berlin's famous Checkpoint Charlie border crossing.
The famous Wagah checkpoint – where audiences watch Indian and Pakistani border guards trade high kicks and handshakes – was briefly shut to the public, reportedly after Pakistani revellers pelted the Indian side with stones.
She was hosting visitors and had just come from showing them the famous border crossing called Checkpoint Charlie, which she said was "just a carnival," with actors in old military uniforms posing for photographs in a sea of tourists.
At Checkpoint Charlie, the famous crossover point for foreigners, American real estate developers bulldozed the watchtower last December to make way for more offices and shops.
Of the several heavily guarded crossing points, Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstrasse was the most famous.
It wasn't quite Checkpoint Charlie or the Glienicke bridge in Berlin, famous for cold war-era spy swaps.
Access is only allowed through a single checkpoint, dubbed the Rafah crossing by the residents after its more famous namesake on the Egypt-Gaza border.
The others were Checkpoint Bravo, where the autobahn crossed from East Germany into West Berlin, and most famous of all, Checkpoint Charlie, the only place where non-Germans could cross from West to East Berlin.
"Flying checkpoint," Rasha said.
