Sentence examples for setting up a checkpoint from inspiring English sources

The Pakistani squash federation provided Toorpakai with security, setting up a checkpoint next to her house.

Officials had begun repopulation efforts Wednesday afternoon, setting up a checkpoint to screen residents coming through the area.

They have set up a checkpoint on the main road leading into town.

The Ethiopian military set up a checkpoint at Kalabeyrka, according to the governor of the Hiran region, Sheik Abdirahman Ibrahim Macow.

The organizers had set up a checkpoint with a 3 p.m. cutoff time to do the whole loop.

The Taliban have set up a checkpoint at Mukur at the southern end of the Ghazni province.

So the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department set up a checkpoint and handed out warnings to errant cyclists.

Palestinian security officials in the nearby town of Tulkarem said soldiers moved into the West Bank in force after the attack and set up a checkpoint.

When the conflict began, Israel set up a checkpoint on the western edge of Baqa al Sharqiya, cutting off the shops from their wealthiest customers.

Jaara said the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades had set up a checkpoint on the road that Boaz used to commute to work in Bethlehem.

The gunmen had set up a checkpoint Monday morning along a road north of Baqubah, the capital of Diyala province, before seizing the Shiite civilians in the bus, according to Maj. Gen. Abdul Kareem al-Rubaie, a police officer in Diyala.