Sentence examples for few checkpoints from inspiring English sources

There were few checkpoints and no weapons in sight.

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

In the last month of calm before the intifada, "we had just a few checkpoints on the former Green Line.

Only a few checkpoints remain: elaborate sculptures made of hollowed-out refrigerators, tire rims, stones, wood carvings.

Here in an area where the borderline is unclear — there are no fences, and few checkpoints — he said Shiite tribes were attacking refugees crossing into Lebanon.

The thud of artillery has diminished around Damascus, and there are few checkpoints in the past couple of weeks, according to recent visitors.

There have been fewer checkpoints since the attacks began, he claimed.

And security within the city appeared much less conspicuous as well, with fewer checkpoints along the streets.

In a future that may have fewer checkpoints, they could travel directly from Ramallah north of Jerusalem to Bethlehem south of it — but without being allowed to enter either Jerusalem or the Maale Adumim settlement bloc.

There are fewer checkpoints in Damascus, 100 women dancing the "dubkah" at a noisy hen party in one of the big hotels, convoys of trucks humming across the Lebanese border en-route to Jordan now that the Syrian army has re-opened the main road to Deraa.

In Mopti, there are few army checkpoints and men in uniform are not frequently seen.