Sentence examples for the former checkpoint from inspiring English sources

Crowds swelled the former checkpoint after an East German official announced that, with immediate effect, travel restrictions would be eased.

"There's little recognition," said Hugo Diederich, the chairman of the Association of Victims of Stalinism, himself a former forced laborer, after a news conference here a short walk from the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing, in a building that stands along the path of the Berlin Wall.

Victor Homola (NYT) GERMANY: GOODBYE CHARLIE The last remaining watchtower at Berlin's former Checkpoint Charlie has been torn down, setting off angry protests from people who felt that it should have been kept as a reminder of the cold war wall that divided the city.

"It was clear that in this moment world history was being written, and that something irreversible was happening," said Mr. Pepper, who has since moved eastward and now lives a short walk from the former Bornholmer checkpoint in the former East Berlin neighborhood of Prenzlauerberg.

After Ukraine's military recaptured Sloviansk, VICE News visited some of the former rebel checkpoints surrounding the city, interviewed a pro-Russia rebel in Donetsk, and went to a "peace rally" where Pavel Gubarev, the pro-Russia governor of the People's Republic of Donetsk, proclaimed that the rebels would not be defeated.

There's still an army checkpoint in the former frontline village of Omanthai, where we had to show our Ministry of Defence permission to visit the north.

Checkpoint Charlie, the former crossing point for foreigners and Allied troops at the Berlin Wall, now serves as a reminder of the Beatles' colossal impact.

In the last month of calm before the intifada, "we had just a few checkpoints on the former Green Line.

Last week also saw a new wave of blue-chip galleries invading the area around Checkpoint Charlie in the former West Berlin.

Simms, 30, a son of the former Giants quarterback Phil Simms, was arrested July 1 at a sobriety checkpoint in Manhattan in a car with his wife and two friends.

What can we do?" As ambulances sped by, a taxi driver waiting at the same checkpoint said life was worse now than under the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.