Sentence examples for operating checkpoints from inspiring English sources

Soldiers could take part in policing streets during curfews, operating checkpoints and enforcing anti-looting laws, the official added.

Since then, they have been patrolling the streets, operating checkpoints, controlling access to some government buildings and establishing themselves as the country's power-brokers.

An unofficial state of martial law now exists, with soldiers and police officers operating checkpoints, marching through streets and checking people for identification cards.

Anwar Fares, a former political prisoner who spoke from Dara'a, said four groups of protesters marched in city, the birthplace of the uprising, where security forces operating checkpoints throughout the city kept them from converging.

[Page A22.] The police began operating checkpoints at many of the city's major bridges and tunnels on Monday night, causing traffic backups and resurrecting memories of a city under siege after the collapse of the World Trade Center.

The paratroopers, who arrived on Monday, were not expected to take part in the United Nations force, though many could be seen today operating checkpoints and patrolling near the United Nations headquarters.

American troops stepped up patrols and operated checkpoints across Baghdad.

Police officers operate checkpoints along the road but are outgunned by the bandits and insurgents and rarely leave their posts.

Not long ago, President Assad's photograph still adorned every pillar in the decrepit Beirut international airport, and Syrian soldiers operated checkpoints at numerous intersections in the capital.

An airport security company has been fined more than $1.5 million for allowing untrained employees, some with criminal backgrounds, to operate checkpoints at Philadelphia International Airport.

Until the new Iraqi battalion demonstrates it can operate checkpoints and other positions, marines will continue to maintain a strong presence, military officials said.