Sentence examples for former checkpoint from inspiring English sources

Crowds swelled the former checkpoint after an East German official announced that, with immediate effect, travel restrictions would be eased.

This would allow them to make a good case that any changes in attitudes among Palestinians who lived near the former checkpoint were caused by the checkpoint's disappearance.

Victor Homola (NYT) GERMANY: GOODBYE CHARLIE The last remaining watchtower at Berlin's former Checkpoint Charlie has been torn down, setting off angry protests from people who felt that it should have been kept as a reminder of the cold war wall that divided the city.

"There's little recognition," said Hugo Diederich, the chairman of the Association of Victims of Stalinism, himself a former forced laborer, after a news conference here a short walk from the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing, in a building that stands along the path of the Berlin Wall.

Today, posters of the image are a best-selling item at the Berlin Wall museum at the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing.

"It was clear that in this moment world history was being written, and that something irreversible was happening," said Mr. Pepper, who has since moved eastward and now lives a short walk from the former Bornholmer checkpoint in the former East Berlin neighborhood of Prenzlauerberg.

On his way there, he visits a former separatist checkpoint and dugout, where he finds artillery the separatists used some of which dates as far back as World War II.

On his way there, he visits a former separatist checkpoint and dugout, where he finds artillery the separatists used – some of which dates as far back as World War II.

· Longer early checkpoints and shorter late checkpoints.

After Ukraine's military recaptured Sloviansk, VICE News visited some of the former rebel checkpoints surrounding the city, interviewed a pro-Russia rebel in Donetsk, and went to a "peace rally" where Pavel Gubarev, the pro-Russia governor of the People's Republic of Donetsk, proclaimed that the rebels would not be defeated.

In my career as a former (thank heavens) checkpoint officer, I saw quite a few passengers throw up their arms and scream, "The terrorists have won!" During the holidays, there were quite a few days at the airport when I couldn't help but wonder if they had.