Sentence examples for main crossings from inspiring English sources

Since the takeover, Israel has closed the main crossings in and out of Gaza to ordinary traffic.

Since the Fatah forces left their border posts in Gaza, Israel has closed down the main crossings, severely restricting imports into the strip.

JERUSALEM, Aug. 9 — The United Nations on Thursday issued a severe warning that Gaza could face an economic meltdown with "disastrous consequences" unless its main crossings were reopened.

A9 U.N. Fears for Gazans The United Nations issued a severe warning that Gaza could face an economic meltdown with "disastrous consequences" unless its main crossings were reopened, adding that Gaza risked becoming fully aid dependent.

By early 2013, the jihadis had also set up boot camps just inside the Syrian border; several of which were within two miles of the main crossings from Turkey.

A good comparison might be drawn with how the traffic functions in a big city; a slight modification in the traffic light timing on several main crossings could result in a disruption of smooth traffic and finally complete chaos.

The multi-point analysis revealed that these sheets were almost vertically oriented, had strong shear and vanishing normal magnetic components and therefore should be interpreted as boundaries between two independent magnetic field domains (flux tubes), rather than crossings of the main cross-tail current sheet.

The Dajabon border crossing is one of the main border crossings where this commerce occurs, and also acts as a point of passage where Haitian migrants frequently enter and exit the Dominican Republic.

To keep foreign fighters from joining the battles, General Sattler said, he is considering having military-aged men prevented from crossing into Iraq from Syria at the main border crossings unless they can show they have official business in Iraq.

He said he did not know the extent of the slowdown, but that goods were still crossing from Pakistan into Afghanistan via the two main border crossings.

At Pul-i-Abrishamin in Nimruz Province, one of the main border crossings with Iran, hundreds of trucks were waiting to cross on Sunday, but officials said they expected only about 15 to make it through by day's end.