Sentence examples for full of checkpoints from inspiring English sources

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They were crimes committed in a city living under an undeclared state of siege, patrolled day and night by 10,000 armed men, and full of checkpoints.

Several people in Yarkant county and Kashgar told the BBC the streets were full of checkpoints and police patrols.

Most of my friends got arrested, many of them died, and Damascus was under siege and full of checkpoints where I knew Assad's soldiers had my name.

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Inside, the protesters mass and chant and wave slogans and banners; outside, the streets are full of impromptu checkpoints — a mix of neighborhood committees, plainclothes police, state security, and soldiers.

Otherwise, they said, it would have been very difficult for someone as notorious as him to travel undetected through Rwanda, a small, tightly run country full of police checkpoints.

The full spectrum of checkpoint(s) that are responsible for restraining cells mutated for BRCA1 or BRCA2 from continued proliferation remains to be defined.

It has become too perilous to leave your house and head to work, the road is full of military and militia checkpoints.

But most of the 21,000 Border Patrol agents aren't trying to stop Osama Jr. from driving from Tijuana with a truck full of smallpox; they're manning checkpoints — which can be up to 100 miles from the border — that harass both peaceful immigrants just looking for work and US citizens.

Like other Arab capitals, it is full of policemen, and there are occasional checkpoints manned by bored-looking soldiers in camouflage uniforms.

But, with rebel armies now roaming the eastern landscape, the government had declared a state of emergency in Abéché and imposed a six-thirty curfew, strictly enforced by checkpoints and pickups full of soldiers with AK-47s and RPGs.

Every time I saw a pickup truck full of young rebels roar through a checkpoint, it occurred to me that Khamis Qaddafi himself could probably avoid detection in Tripoli as long as he had a rebel flag wrapped around his head and had spray-painted "Free Libya" on his truck.

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