Sentence examples for screening points from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush's proposal was also said to include having a law enforcement officer at each of the 700 passenger screening points.

For weeks the new Transportation Security Administration has focused on more pressing problems, like taking over the screening points, and officials have equivocated on whether such a card is feasible.

For six years, beginning in 1973 after a spate of hijackings, security screening points were set up in all the country's airports and they were guarded by armed police officers.

One of the consultants' jobs is to help re-engineer airports -- changing baggage flow, for example, to run all checked bags through new explosive-detection machines, and rerouting passengers through better-organized screening points.

The complaints added to the discontent and frustration among passengers, airlines and airport operators in Europe over the ever-changing safety requirements and the long waiting times at security screening points in airports.

For people whose airplanes flew more or less on time, lines at passenger screening points were longer, and for international arrivals, there was an added step of giving fingerprints, although American officials said that this did not add much to processing times.

Not only will the three-level center serve as the entry and screening point for visitors.

Under the new system those more thorough searches will be carried out earlier, at the main screening point.

It is important, Lieutenant Nichols said, that the new center will provide some distance between the screening point and entry into the Capitol itself.

Eventually, Mr. Hoyer said, a new visitors' center will be built on the Capitol grounds, designed to enhance security by serving as a central screening point.

Screeners need the boarding pass at the main screening point, rather than the gate, because the pass indicates whether travelers have been selected for more scrutiny.