Sentence examples for compound and cause from inspiring English sources

Aimed at seizing headlines rather than territory, suicide squads select a high-profile target, use a car or truck bomb to breach a guarded compound and cause maximum casualties and then send fighters in to prolong the assault with a drawn-out fight to the death.

Sometimes it's nothing more than mistakes that compound and cause us to play the song in a different way or with a different kind of feeling than we've ever played before.

Fazal Karim, the head of Shamshad Television, said that one of the rockets landed in his station's compound and caused minor damage.

Once inside, the insurgents attacked the airfield side of the compound and caused "some damage to aircraft, damage to structures and killed those two marines", the officer said.

PFOS and linear isomers appear to be more toxic than PFOA and branched chain compounds, i.e., in comparison, PFOS and linear isomers exhibit a longer half-life than do PFOA and branched chain compounds and cause adverse effects at lower dosages.

"Small mistakes can end up compounding and causing catastrophic damage," Mr. Stockman said of that disaster, three years before his firm's own.

Alternatively, GSTs act as ligandins by binding many toxic nonreactive compounds and causing their elimination from the cell.

Another as yet unproven hypothesis suggests that variations in FcγRIIa, FcγRIIb and FcγRIIIa affect risk in a compound heterozygote fashion, and cause disbalance in stimulatory and inhibitory signals [ 109].

Don't just stand there in a strop and stop talking to them as a passive retaliatory measure, as this will only compound the problem and cause them to think you're moody.

Another detraction was that synthetic stucco — often used in place of the traditional concrete compound — tended to leak and cause structural damage.

These compounds selectively inhibit proliferation and cause cell cycle arrest in various human cancer cells but not in normal cells.