Sentence examples for traffic checkpoints from inspiring English sources

In August, the Capitol Police Department established a new perimeter of traffic checkpoints.

By Tuesday, the Capitol Police had closed a street and established 14 traffic checkpoints around Capitol Hill.

The officers have set up traffic checkpoints, which have been successful previously in recovering illegal guns and drugs.

In late 2008, trained in self-defense and small-arms use, they fanned out to traffic checkpoints and other security posts in Diyala, Baghdad's Sunni neighborhoods and towns south of the capital.

The city has been operating at its highest level of security, known as Omega, since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack and had been assigning as many as 1,400 officers a day to security patrols at bridges and tunnels, City Hall, ground zero, city landmarks and at traffic checkpoints in Lower Manhattan.

One way local-law enforcement checks immigration status is through traffic checkpoints.

Its more 'How do we survive?' " In the Bayelsa State capital, Yenagoa, a couple of ballot boxes have been put up as roadblocks at a traffic checkpoint.

Last week, a speeding car banged into a policeman standing at a traffic checkpoint and didn't bother to stop; the officer was critically injured.

A federal judge refused to stop a traffic checkpoint program in Washington, requiring drivers to provide the police identification and a destination before entering a crime-ridden neighborhood.

In June, Radio Free Asia said at least 18 people died when ethnic Uighurs attacked police with knives and bombs at a traffic checkpoint in the old Silk Road city of Kashgar.

At least 18 people died after ethnic Uighurs attacked police with knives and bombs at a traffic checkpoint in China's western Xinjiang region, Radio Free Asia reported on Wednesday.