Border posts

Usage examples of checkpoints.

He explained that he too had been detained at several checkpoints, and like Murdick he was not angry with the guards, but rather with the aliens who made the checkpoints necessary.

It was certainly safest: the security patrols were at their strongest at night, and the checkpoints and scanners were all in operation.

No one ever moved here and in the past few years they had hardly bothered to operate the checkpoints except when they received a raid alert, which was not even twice a year.

As part of due diligence, they could have been hired to review training programs, check compliance, test checkpoints, stuff like that.

Kamil set up more checkpoints on all the highways going north from Tikrit.

The nights are becoming long this time of year and the soldiers at the checkpoints become bored.

The doors came more frequently now, as did the checkpoints, but finally they came to a halt in front of a door that appeared no different from any of the others.

All three checkpoints had no one in position, despite the fact that it was nearly dusk.

He had already been held up at two security checkpoints because of the film cartridgeits seal, its size, its metal strip.

His laughter was still crackling in her headphones as she shot down the street and, two checkpoints later, she was back on the Jamaicaway.

In his own way, he knew he was approaching one of the bandeirante checkpoints, and with an almost human gesture he fingered the cedula de graicias al sacar, the certificate of white blood, tucked safely beneath his shirt.

He had passed three checkpoints manned by unsmiling men who looked capable of sudden violence.