Sentence examples for compound on fire from inspiring English sources
By nightfall, the protesters had evicted the militia and set parts of the compound on fire.
In past Congressional hearings, they have presented evidence that he ordered his followers to set the compound on fire as part of a suicide pact.
Media captionWilliam Hague: "This remains a very serious failure by the Iranian government" Pictures showed a car inside the compound on fire while several hundred other demonstrators were gathered outside the embassy's walls.
Last September, in fact, hundreds of Islamist protesters attacked the U.S. embassy compound in Tunisia, setting it on fire.
The barracks for a militia that was protecting the compound was set on fire, and the attack unfolded.
Killed in the attacks were Stevens and State Department information technology aide Sean Smith, who both died of smoke inhalation after their villa at the diplomatic compound was set on fire after 9 45 p.m. Sept. 11; and ex-Navy SEALs Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty, who died in a precision mortar strike before dawn Sept. 12 defending a nearby CIA annex where compound survivors had retreated.
If the catalysts I use for artificial photosynthesis had to live in a world of no oxygen, I'd be in trouble, but the weird thing is that discovering how to make those catalysts often involved working with compounds that catch on fire and explode".
Ten United Nations vehicles were set on fire in one compound, two more in another.
The 11 September 2012 attack, in which gunmen stormed the US compound and set it on fire, has become a political lightning rod.
Buffett uses a straightforward formula that pays off for anyone who gives it the time, said John Lee Dumas, founder and host of the podcast "Entrepreneur On Fire": "Compound interest plus patience." Read: 21 Surprising Facts You Never Knew About Warren Buffett.
Witnesses stopped to gape at a helicopter circling above the heavy black smoke billowing into the gray winter sky from a building set on fire inside the compound.
