Sentence examples for remote checkpoint from inspiring English sources

An Afghan police officer turned his gun on Nato troops at a remote checkpoint in the south of the country, killing four American troops, according to Afghan and international officials.

Almost until the last minute, travelers said, the border post here functioned with the usual combination of efficiency and graft that characterized Saddam Hussein's rule: bags were searched and bribes were solicited, even though this remote checkpoint on Iraq's western border with Jordan has been surrounded by American Special Forces since the war began.

What is different from traditional fingerprinting is that the government can scan through millions of digital files in a matter of seconds, even at remote checkpoints, using hand-held devices distributed widely across the security forces.

Outside Checkpoint Charlie gate.

But she claimed the distinction of being the first woman to make it to the remote third checkpoint.

During one cold night four years ago spent sheltering with a group of soldiers at a remote mountain checkpoint, the sight of a reporter's satellite telephone produced amazed whispers among the soldiers, and then, in English, a quiet request.

When Brigadier General Sar Theth officers tracked three Thai men in a pick-up truck as it passed through a remote border checkpoint from Thailand, what they found surprised even them.

In the most theatrical event of the president's weeklong Texas vacation, Mr. Cleland turned up at the remote first checkpoint on Prairie Chapel Road outside Mr. Bush's 1,600-acre 1,600-acreednesday afteranch, and then tried tondeliver a letter asking the president to condemn the television commercials against Mr. Kerry by the SWednesday group.

Kohver, an officer of the Kaitsepolitsei or KaPo, Estonia's counter intelligence agency, was held at gunpoint near the Luhamaa border checkpoint in remote south-eastern Estonia carrying a large amount of cash and a firearm.

While similar to a traditional batch queuing and scheduling system, Condor provides the additional capability of running jobs on idle desktop workstations with no special programming required to use Condor's checkpoint and remote system call features.

Several police units had placed themselves at checkpoints in remote areas on the beach, far from the car ferry.