Sentence examples for manning a checkpoint from inspiring English sources

A grenade was thrown at PAD protesters manning a checkpoint on the road to the airport.

It was nice to have if you were manning a checkpoint.

One soldier from the interior ministry, manning a checkpoint near Shyrokyne, calls the group a "separate government".

In the southern Doura neighbourhood, another former Sunni militant stronghold, gunmen wounded three patrol members manning a checkpoint.

Troops from 1st Battalion 5th Marine Regiment were manning a checkpoint near Hurricane Point, a US base near Ramadi.

On March 11 , 2006 after drinking Iraqi whiskey, Private Green and other soldiers manning a checkpoint decided to rape an Iraqi girl who lived nearby, according to testimony.

Abeer Qasim Hamza, aged 14, was raped and murdered by five American soldiers whose unit manned a checkpoint near where she lived with her family, who were also killed.

Twelve hours later, Sergeant Clifton, 32, learned that armed Kurds had somehow kidnapped 20 Arabs from the neighborhood while he and his men manned a checkpoint 300 yards away.

"They are here till the war ends," says a sympathetic Jordanian policeman, who mans a checkpoint near the hostel to bar their way out.Close relations in Amman need permits to visit their camp in the midst of a barren free-trade zone rather hopefully named Cyber City, near Jordan's border with Syria.

Mohammed Faraj, 44, a former military man who joined the rebels, held a grenade in each hand as he manned a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city.

Nine days ago, while manning a road checkpoint, he was shot in the leg.