Sentence examples for handful of checkpoints from inspiring English sources

Two days later, Israel began its new campaign to kill leaders and members of Hamas, and it again closed most of the handful of checkpoints it had relaxed during the weeks of relative calm.

Promises to remove even a handful of the checkpoints have gone largely unfulfilled, partly because local army commanders, who enjoy considerable autonomy and fear getting the rap if a suicide-bomber slips through, err on the side of caution.Meanwhile, the peace talks are floundering.

A handful of isolated military checkpoints in the grey zone between rebel lands and the border reinforce the Ukrainian side of crossing points.

To do even that they have stretched: three-fifths of the Marines are stationed at checkpoints and a handful of austere outposts ringing Khan Neshin, living without air-conditioning or refrigerated water.

The object of this display, a handful of American marines manning a nearby checkpoint, milled about as their commander called through a loudspeaker on the crowd to disperse.The "army" is the creation of Muqtada al-Sadr, a radical Shia cleric who has emerged as the most prominent critic of the American-led coalition, and the appointed Iraqis in the Governing Council.

Guerrilla checkpoints -- typically a handful of men standing by the side of the road with AK-47's and jugs of gasoline -- seem to pop up anywhere.

As a spokeswoman for the security agency, Ann Davis, pointed out last week, the recent arrests represent only "a handful" of the approximately 45,000 federal screeners at checkpoints and in baggage areas.

Shorter checkpoint intervals cause frequent checkpointing, large number of checkpoints thus resulting in much time spent in checkpoint activity, higher disk space required to store checkpoint images.

With lots of checkpoints.

One motorist who came through the checkpoint showed him a handful of the government leaflets he had picked up in a field.

One woman from the Nuer tribe was detained at a checkpoint and pulled away by a handful of government soldiers.