Lynsey Addario

You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.

American Photographer

Carl Frampton

I remember going through checkpoints as a kid. It felt normal but, looking back, of course it created tension. People standing with guns, sometimes your car getting searched and being asked where you are going. It changes the atmosphere.

Irish Boxer

Joe Henderson

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.

American Athlete

Hilary Knight

The most valuable advice I can give is plan for your success. Write down your ideal goal, creating checkpoints for yourself along the way that align with the end goal. Set up rewards for achieving both little victories and big ones.

Otto Schily

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

German Public Servant

Nimrat Kaur

As an actor, there are many confusing factors that can make you take or not take a decision. It becomes difficult. Your first and last checkpoint should be the story. I always read a script as an audience.

Indian Actress

David Neeleman

Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint.

Brazilian Businessman

Queen Rania of Jordan

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

Jordanian Royalty

P. J. O'Rourke

Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

American Comedian

Shia LaBeouf

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

American Actor

Checkpoints often imply police or military are present for security reasons.

Police Presence

Checkpoints can be set up for safety, such as checking for drunk drivers.

Safety Checks

Expect delays when approaching a checkpoint, as each vehicle is stopped and checked.

Travel Slows Down

Business checkpoints are for evaluating the progress of a project at certain stages.

Progress Evaluation

Checkpoints help ensure the quality of a product or service meets standards.

Quality Assurance

Unlike deadlines, checkpoints do not mark the end but a review point in the timeline.

Not a Deadline

In gaming, a checkpoint allows you to resume playing from that point after failure.

Game Progress

Reaching a checkpoint means you won't have to repeat parts of the game you've passed.

Avoid Repetition

Computing checkpoints ensure that data is not lost during updates or crashes.

Data Security

A checkpoint in computing can serve as a recovery point to which one can revert.

Recovery Point

 One, this is not a historically high level of interceptions at the southern border, and, in fact, people are presenting themselves at checkpoints. Two, people are showing up with the clothes on their backs; some of them are literally in flip-flops. And three, we're the most powerful country in the world.

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 and you might want to speak really quickly. It slows you down just a little bit to say, all right, all right, you do want to say this thing, it is valid, but don't come at this person's neck. So I think it's important for me. It's a checkpoint that I've used for years that I kind of lead with.

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 is legally binding. And the checkpoints that we're going to have every five years to assess collective progress towards our goal are legally binding, and the path itself toward a decarbonized and more resilient economy is legally binding. And here's the more important What did we have before?

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 and counted over half a million people in 18 hours, ensuring that the data was available in real time at various checkpoints, ensuring a safe flow of people. Now, this system, eventually, with other innovations, is what helped prevent stampedes altogether at that festival.

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 checkpoints if the pass through everywhere you go in the country it is a simple act of communication that is the most frustrating experience calls go to a switchboard and emails are shared by an entire organization in this context face-to-face meeting is critical for

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 Tumor suppressor genes are involved in regulating how fast a cell divides. Normally, cell division follows an orderly process called the cell cycle, which is basically the life cycle of a cell. Within the cell cycle is a series of checkpoints,

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 These videos could help us investigate the visual signs of the crackdown. The checkpoints at each intersection with their metal detectors, ID checks and iris scans, the CCTV cameras which pervade the city and the riot police on every corner.

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 you want to open the tap and make it a cup of tea there is nobody then you want to bring your children to school just as a normal family in any weary of the world then you face a roadblock but if not a roadblock you face a checkpoint

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 I ask myself three things. Did you mean it? Can you defend it? Did you say it with love? If the answer is yes to all three, I say it and let the chips fall. That's important. That checkpoint with myself

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 the vets from the rescue center are trying to combat the trade by working with the authorities at checkpoints on the main routes out of the jungle