Sentence examples for a vast compound from inspiring English sources

Before traveling to Shikoku, I spent some time at Koyasan, a vast compound of temples, monasteries, cemeteries, shops and tourist shelters, and probably a very different sort of mandala from the one Kukai envisioned.

For 12 years, more than 5,000 Iraqi refugees have lived inside a vast compound of windowless warrens, secured by tall barbed-wire fences, patrolled by Saudi soldiers and perhaps as isolated as any place could be.

Unarmed young men climbed into bulldozers and drove them in suicidal attempts to breach the high green-and-white walls of the Katiba, the last stronghold of Qaddafi's authority left in the city, a vast compound that dominates Benghazi's downtown like a medieval fort.

When I strapped on the head-seat at Valley College and looked around, I was brought face-to-face with a giant pig among thousands of others inside a vast compound of Mid Western pork producer Christensen Farms.

A California court Friday threw up a roadblock to the vast compound a Saudi Arabian prince hopes to build in Benedict Canyon, a project opposed by the billionaires next door and hundreds of residents nearby.

Around them in a vast industrial compound their buildings are looted bare.

Reports described the station as a vast, filthy compound where prisoners had been chained to the concrete floor.

The Qin tomb (3rd century bce), near the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi, China, is a vast mortuary compound at the centre of which lies the mound of the first emperor of the Qin dynasty, Shihuangdi.

Mr. Ramírez said that the explosion occurred in a storage area near the edge of the vast compound and did not damage the main processing area, so he expected work at the refinery would resume within two days.

Carry on to Miramar and you come upon the vast compound once occupied by the Soviet embassy.Having been a Spanish possession, an American neo-colony and then a Soviet client, "for the first time in its history or at least since 1510 the island is really on its own," wrote Hugh Thomas, a British historian, in 2001.

MADRID — Bloodstains mixed with graffiti mark the walls of this city's old slaughterhouse and its vast compound of arched neo-Moorish pavilions.