At a strategic checkpoint, a French lieutenant explained why.
ISIS has put checkpoints in strategic places so that anyone entering Syria from the north must pass through them.
President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia questioned whether Russia was serious about meeting the deadline, citing reports of Russian forces digging in around the port city of Poti and establishing checkpoints on strategic roads.
So, early in their outing, the team made a U-turn at a checkpoint across the strategic St. Paul River, manned by the feared government militia group that calls itself the Wild Geese.
In the worst of the new episodes, six policemen were killed Saturday morning while asleep at their checkpoint on the strategic Ring Road in Helmand Province, after some police colleagues betrayed them to the Taliban, according to Dawood Ahmadi, the spokesman for the provincial governor.
In budding yeast, the intersection of checkpoint mechanisms at strategic points along the cell cycle continuum is believed to foster coupled serial interactions between certain transcription factors and regulate the pace of transcriptional change through key cell cycle transitions (see reviews [73], [74]).
Children as young as 12, are undergoing military training and have been used as informants, to patrol, to man checkpoints and to guard strategic locations.
Soldiers have been protecting strategic sites and public buildings and manning checkpoints around the capital, but there have been no reports of them firing on unarmed civilians since Ben Ali left.
Mr. Blair said he had focused on altering what he described as 12 "strategic obstacles" out of the hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints that dot the West Bank.
The frontier along the Golan Heights, a strategic rocky plateau, is the most sensitive in Syria, and checkpoints proliferate.
